The Fetus Rights in Islam

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<i>"Because in Islam there is nothing to do with the original sin and that the mother is baptised in opposition to the foetus who is not." </i>


Muslimah,


The life of the unbaptized baby is of equal value to the life of the baptized mother. The Church does not negotiate on this matter. Abortion is strictly banned & never acceptable for Catholics (& Christians in general, I hope).


<i>"Islam legists agreed unanimously on prohibiting abortion and they resorted to the fact that God granted life to such lifeless thing and only He who has the power to take it back. Physicians and embryologists agreed that fetus is a living organism even when it is still a sperm and this is a convincing reason, from the scientific point of view, for not depriving such a helpless creature form the divine right of life."</i>


If this is the case, then why does Islam forsake the baby's life in order that the mother survive?


I come from the school of thought that both the mother & the baby inside her womb are human persons & to deliberately abort the "foetus" is never justifiable.


Please help me understand.


I'll check out the link re: contraception/cloning as soon as I have the chance & I would also like to discuss Islam's stance on Original Sin down the track. Sometimes I think the 3 monotheistic faiths have a great deal in common, other times it seems that we're worlds apart :conf06:


Thank you kindly :)


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