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These views toward abortion are still referenced and used by several modern Islamic theologians and scholars. [ 1 ] According to religious studies scholar Zahra Ayubi, historically, Muslim thought was more concerned with the topic of preservation of human life and safeguarding of the mother's life than with determining when life begins. [ 11 ]
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]
Views differ about how medieval Islamic authorities understood the doctrine of the corruption (taḥrīf) of biblical texts. According to Martin Accad, doctrines of corruption primarily referred to corruption of the meaning and interpretation of the biblical scriptures among Jews and Christians, as opposed to the text itself. [ 32 ]
Abortion rights groups are challenging abortion bans in some states by arguing the bans — supported by certain religious principles — violate the religious rights of people with different beliefs.
Some Black women religious leaders, churchgoers and others in Christian communities said they were figuring out how to think about the ways abortion squares Black women from 20 to 78 share how ...
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.
The first White House official to visit an abortion clinic, Harris has called Trump's actions on abortion “unconscionable.” “It’s insulting to the women of America,” Harris said.
[58] [60] In the latter view, abortion after 40 or 120 days is considered to be a greater sin. [ 61 ] "Verily, the creation of one of you is brought together in the mother’s womb for forty days in the form of a drop (nutfah), then he becomes a clot ('alaqah) for a like period, then a lump for a like period, then there is sent an angel who ...