Jurisprudential-Legal Challenges of Therapeutic Abortion in the Light of the Family Protection Law and the Youth of the Population

Document Type : Original/ Research Article

Authors
elahe taherbakht 1
Maryam Sadat Mohaghegh Damad 2
1 PhD student in Jurisprudence and Fundamentals of Islamic Law, Farabi College, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Law, Imam Sadegh University (AS), Tehran, Iran
10.30497/flj.2023.244347.1900
Abstract
Abortion has always been discussed throughout history due to its moral, jurisprudential and legal aspects. One of the problems and dilemmas caused by abortion is the decreasing of the young population in countries with a middle-aged pyramid like Iran, So, in order to prevent it, in 1400, the law "Supporting the Family and the Youth of the Population" was approved; However, its implementation - especially in the issue of abortion treatment - has faced many challenges and by applying many restrictions in the field of fetal health and its abortion, has violated the purpose of increasing the rate of healthy and productive population. The purpose of this article is to examine the jurisprudential and legal challenges of therapeutic abortion in the light of the Family and Youth Protection Law and to try to provide efficient solutions to solve the challenges of this field. The collecting data is based on documentary- library materials and the research has been done by descriptive-analytical method. The investigations show that the application of severe restrictions in the field of fetal health and abortion treatment will have no result other than endangering the lives of mothers and increasing the number of criminal abortions and provides the grounds for abuse by the offenders and their profit seeking. Also, due to the different bases and opinions of jurists and lawyers regarding abortion and the time of soul rebirth and the lack of determining a single and specific time for soul rebirth in different sciences of jurisprudence, law and medicine, it is not possible to leave the issuing of permission or disallowance of therapeutic abortion to the judges. And it should be done with the cooperation of jurists, lawyers and doctors regarding the criteria for fetal abnormities to make a correct decision.
Keywords
criminal abortion
legal abortion
indications for abortion
genetic diseases
fetal abnormalities
Subjects

مقالۀ حاضر، مستخرج از پایان‌‏نامه کارشناسی ارشد حقوق خانواده با عنوان سقط‏ درمانی جنین در قوانین موضوعۀ ایران با رویکردی به قانون حمایت از خانواده و جوانی جمعیت، از دانشگاه امام صادق (ع) است.

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