Abortion law in Muslim-majority countries: an overview of the Islamic discourse with policy implications

GK Shapiro - Health policy and planning, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… In examining the diversity of abortion law in Muslim-majority countries, this study defined
Muslim-majority countries similar to Razzak et al. (2011) as independent countries with a 50% …

Attitudes toward abortion among the Muslim minority and non-Muslim majority in cross-national perspective: can religiosity explain the differences?

S Carol, N Milewski - Sociology of Religion, 2017 - academic.oup.com
majority in European receiving … abortion (1) between the non-Muslim majority and Muslim
minority as well as (2) between Muslims and (3) between different generations of Muslims. …

[PDF][PDF] Islam and abortion: The diversity of discourses and practices

L Hessini - Ids Bulletin, 2008 - core.ac.uk
… Tunisia, for example, reformed its abortion law before France … that legal restrictions on
abortion exist throughout the Muslim … are the basis for abortion laws in the majority of countries. …

[PDF][PDF] Abortion in different islamic jurisprudence: Case and commentaries

A Bagheri, L Afshar, MA Shahin, M Zawawi… - Asian Bioethics …, 2011 - researchgate.net
… to abort the foetus, provided that the pregnancy is less than 120 days along. However, …
majority of scholars do not agree with the abovementioned opinion and hold that abortion is …

American-Muslims, Abortion, and the Construction of a “Normative Communal Conservatism”

M Amini, A Ouassini, R Miller - Journal of Religious & Theological …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… However, the prevailing opinion of the vast majority of the Muslim world, who also happen
to follow either the Shafi and Hanafi schools, declare that ensoulment occurs at 120 days. …

Therapeutic abortion in Islam: contemporary views of Muslim Shiite scholars and effect of recent Iranian legislation

KM Hedayat, P Shooshtarizadeh, M Raza - Journal of medical ethics, 2006 - jme.bmj.com
… The status of abortion in Muslim countries is reviewed, with special emphasis on the …
abortion law passed by the Iranian Parliament in 2003. This law approved therapeutic abortion

Abortion and Islam: policies and practice in the Middle East and North Africa

L Hessini - Reproductive health matters, 2007 - Elsevier
… While abortions are common across the MENA region, the majority of procedures are, by
World Health Organization definitions, unsafe. Women's access is affected by their socio-…

Abortion, Islam, and the 1994 Cairo population conference

DL Bowen - International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1997 - cambridge.org
abortion as a method of family planning but leaving open its use under specific
circumstances.Although a majority of Muslimsabortion, the Muslim theological position on …

Abortion laws in Muslim countries: modern reconfiguration of pre-modern logic

A Osman - Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2022 - degruyter.com
… on abortion laws in Muslim countries. 2 Abortion in the Modern Laws of Muslim Countries …
[91] In this analysis, many of the restrictions on abortion in Muslim-majority countries are not …

Abortion in Islamic countries-legal and religious aspects

O Asman - Med. & L., 2004 - HeinOnline
… The second part focuses on the legal aspects of abortion in different Islamic … to abort and
at the same time enact laws that would not contradict Islamic principles. A study of three Muslim