Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bahrain, a politically and socially conservative Muslim state, is the 12th among these countries to permit unrestricted access to abortion. Among socially conservative Muslim countries, seven countries allow abortion in the first four months of gestation for fetal deformities—four countries in Sub-saharan Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad ...
Abortion is perceived as murder by many religious conservatives. [4] Anti-abortion advocates believe that legalized abortion is a threat to social, moral, and religious values. [4] Religious people who advocate abortion rights generally believe that life starts later in the pregnancy, for instance at quickening, after the first trimester. [5]
After the fall of Roe vs. Wade, Jews, Muslims and others debate abortion access and religious liberty.
Muslim views on abortion are also shaped by the Hadith as well as by the opinions of legal and religious scholars and commentators. In Islam, the fetus is believed to become a living soul after four months of gestation, [ 112 ] and abortion after that point is generally viewed as impermissible.
Muslim scholars have extended the example of coitus interruptus, by analogy, to declaring permissible other forms of contraception, subject to three conditions. [ 41 ] As offspring are the right of both the husband and the wife, the birth control method should be used with both parties consent.
“It means that I have an opportunity to contribute in some way to this experiment called America, drawing from a heritage I believe has benefits for everybody. I realize that given the popular perception of Muslims, that is a difficult thing to do. But I believe the American spirit of innovation and optimism allows me to take on that challenge.
The governor can’t do much that’s significant on abortion without the legislature, which has a Republican majority and in all likelihood will try to restrict abortion further after the general ...
This is who is affected by abortion legislation.