Abortion--the need to change Jewish law.

I-13: Therapeutic Abortion Law in Iran: Past,Present and Future

s:2987:"Although the definition of abortion is pregnancy loss under 20 weeks of gestational age, in Islamic law, termination pregnancy in any gestational age is considered abortion "SEGHT JANIN". Also only "induced abortion" has legal validity, and other kinds of miscarriage (recurrent, missed,…) have no legal or ethical issue. In Iran, Islam is the base of the law. Article 4 of Iran constituti...

مبانی سقط درمانی و بررسی آن از منظر حقوق جزای پزشکی

The need for abortion is called “Therapeutic abortion” in terminology. In Iran legislator declared abortion absolutely illegal and unlawful after ensoulment when he proposed different juridical and legal ideas and he accepted sprit before ensoulment under special conditions of single article of Therapeutic abortion law and he has taken a step forward effectively for regulating abort...

Symposium on Religious Law: Roman Catholic, Islamic, and Jewish Treatment of Familial Issues, Including Education, Abortion, In Vitro Fertilization, Prenuptial Agreements, Contraception, and Martial Fraud

Challenges for Implication of the La-Haraj Rule and Identifying Its Examples in Therapeutic Abortion

Introduction: The first right of the fetus is living. Therefore, the first order of the Sharia is the prohibition of abortion, except in cases, where it is permitted for the sake of prudence. Neither Islam develops the scope of the abortion permission, like some of the laws of the Western countries, that the life of the fetus is an option on their parents’ hands, nor it limits this scope in suc...

Abortion law: campaign groups and the quest for change.

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2006: 32(4) Introduction Many groups seek a change in current UK abortion legislation. Such organisations consist of parliamentary groups, professional bodies, pro-choice and anti-abortion campaign groups and charitable service providers. Individuals have initiated court cases to achieve change. Abortion law in the UK is laid down in the Abortion Act 1967, as amen...