LadyAngelika
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In Saudi Arabia? In Afghanistan?....
You said Middle East. You did not say specific countries. My Iranian and Lebanese friends confirm that they are a legal there. I'd have to look at each country's law, but I would do just that before making assumptions.
Bottom line is that there is nothing in Islamic or Jewish law that prevents it. It is to see what the civil code says.
- LA
I had to look as my ex and his ex had an abortion when they still were in Iran. He told me it was acceptable there, even if you had to keep it hush hush.
In Iran, abortions are technically illegal unless it is to save the life of the mother. BUT having an abortion before ensoulment (which Islamic law considers about 120 days) is absolutely possible and only chargeable with a monetary penalty, blood money they call it.
From the UN Report.
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After the revolution in 1979, abortion was once again made illegal on most grounds. Under the Penal Code of 1991, which is based on Islamic law, abortion is categorized as a lesser crime involving bodily injury (oisas), which is punishable by the payment of blood money or compensation (diyah). Compensation is paid to the victim or, in the case of the victim’s death, to the victim’s relatives.
In the case of abortion, the amount of compensation paid depends on the stage of the pregnancy when the abortion is performed. It is 20 dinars if semen is established in the uterus; 40 dinars if the embryo has formed a blood clot; 60 dinars if the embryo has attained the shape of flesh; 80 dinars for a foetus that has attained the shape of bone upon which the flesh has not yet grown; 100 dinars for a foetus in which bones and flesh are completely bound, but there is no spirit; and the full diyah payable for a human if the foetus is ensouled. Before ensoulment, the compensation is the same regardless of sex. After ensoulment, half of the full diyah is payable in the case of a woman, or, if the sex of the foetus is indeterminate, three-quarters of the full diyah. If the pregnant woman aborts her own child, she is not to receive any part of the compensation. The amount of full diyah is set by the Code at 1,000 unadulterated or unalloyed gold dinars, 10,000 unadulterated or unalloyed silver dirhams, or certain numbers of camels, cows, sheep or garments. Although the abortion provisions of the Code do not express any exceptions to the prohibition against abortion, other sections of the Code exempt from criminal punishment persons who perform criminal acts in order to save the life of another person. Presumably these would justify the performance of an abortion to save the life of a pregnant woman.
You can look up any country here: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/profiles.htm
- LA
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