in islam is it haram for muslim women to use protection ?
Ahem, PBA is not an appropriate medical term- it's about as accurate as calling Muslims "Muhammadans". Dialation and Extraction, the most invasive type of abortion, is reserved for extreme cases, where fetal life cannot continue, has already ended, or the mother's life is in imminent danger. It is certainly not a form of elective abortion used in the US, at least. Planned Parenthood has good information on abortion procedures- I say this because they describe what actually happens for abortions at each stage, not because they offer them to women. For the vast majority of women who receive abortions, dialation and curettage (d&c) or dialation and suction are used to remove the embryo/fetus, and ancillary tissues.I would advise people not to read this and move on.
I think some people before were referring to what is called partial birth abortion. It is the most radical. So let's start at the other end of the pregnancy. The easiest form of abortion is the Morning-After pill, RU-486 or something similar. A week or two into the pregnancy, a woman can take a pill which causes a spontaneous abortion. If done early enough the woman may not even feel much discomfort. If left to later, up to the first fifteen weeks, a form of suction is used which is exactly as it sounds. It is not unlike a vaccuum cleaner in fact. Between fifteen and twenty seven weeks the woman must be dialated first. Do not ask me to explain what that means because this is an Islamic site but it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. Then the foetus is extracted with a pump which may require use of surgical tools. At the early end of the spectrum the uterus may just be scraped. At the extreme end, once the foetus is much larger, it may be dismembered in situ and then extracted. The most radical is Partial-Birth Abortion in which a woman is induced to go into labor. When the baby's head is visible, a hole is made in the skulls, the contents are removed, the skull is crushed, the body is dismembered and then extracted. I'm with the Republican Party on PBA.
not only that, but when an abortion takes place they actually crush the foetus' skull or something?-its awful! and there's lots of new evidence and better equipment to be able to view the foetus in its initial stages, and they found that even from really early stages the foetus seems to shows acts that look similar to crying/laughing etc.
Ahh, it's too easy for me to say no to abortion, as I'm not pregnant. Even if I were to be, I'm 26, and have a decent job. I'm not a 13 year old who has been gang raped, I'm not a 14 yr. old whose boyfriend has told her "You can't get pregnant the first time", I'm not a diabetic who may have to choose between her child's life and her own- literally. I'm also not my friend, whose husband tried to beat her into having a miscarriage- and nearly succeeded. I can say no to abortion for myself, but there are many other women without that luxury.
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