This paper provides an overview of legal, religious, medical and social factors that serve to
support or hinder women's access to safe abortion services in the 21 predominantly Muslim …

Religion plays a significant role in a patient's bioethical decision to have an abortion as well
as in a country's abortion policy. Nevertheless, a holistic understanding of the Islamic …

Stigma and silence surrounded unsafe abortion in Africa until the International Conference
on Population and Development in 1994. Up to five million unsafe abortions are performed …

The debate over abortion is still controversial as ever. As one of every four people in the
world is of the Muslim religion, it is important to learn more about the Islamic point of view …

The International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo in September
1994 focused world attention on the interplay of religion, family-planning methods, and …

As part of efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goal 5–to reduce maternal mortality by
75% and achieve universal access to reproductive health by 2015–the Malawi Ministry of …

Abortion is forbidden under normal circumstances by nearly all the major world religions.
Traditionally, abortion was not deemed permissible by Muslim scholars. Shiite scholars …

Using extensive interviews, including discussions with heads of state and church, and
original research in Kenya, Mexico and Poland, Andrzej Kulczycki examines how cultural …

In keeping with predominate Islamic attitudes toward birth control, the legal status of
contraception in Muslim countries (derived primarily from European civil codes) is …

This overview of Islam and family planning is part of a series of PRB policy briefs on the
Middle East and North Africa that analyze population, environment, reproductive health, and …