Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity

Technological developments in the domain of fertility treatment in spite of thier utilitarian uses come with a plethora of ethico-religious challenges for people of faith particularly if they contradict some of their core religious values and beliefs about human procreation. The most disruptive amon...

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Main Authors:	Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah, Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Law (Slovenia), University of Maribor 2019
Subjects:	KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim
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spelling	iium-759412019-11-25T01:36:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/75941/ Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas KBP173.25 Islamic law and other disciplines or subjects KBP470 Law reform. Criticism. Tanzim Technological developments in the domain of fertility treatment in spite of thier utilitarian uses come with a plethora of ethico-religious challenges for people of faith particularly if they contradict some of their core religious values and beliefs about human procreation. The most disruptive among such challenges is declaring parental choice of a specific gender to their future offspring as part of their reproductive liberty (right). As to how major semitic religions, such as Christionaity and Islam respond to it, the answer is polemical. Christianity genrally objects to it mainly because it turns procreation into a manufacturing business instead of leaving the sex of a baby to God. The Islamic position, on the other hand, is less rigid as the majority of Sunni Muslim legists, without much reflections on its ethical dilemmas, approve it not only for medical reason but also family balancing while dissenting views among them consider it a direct affront on what God has declard to be His domain of perfection of human procreation. This paper, therefore, argues that defining parents` decision on sexing a “right” or “liberty” is difficult to maintain unless a far-fetched perspective of scriptural texts is adopted. Faculty of Law (Slovenia), University of Maribor 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/75941/1/75941_Parental%20Reproductive%20Liberty.pdf Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah and Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas (2019) Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity. Medicine, Law & Society, 12 (2). pp. 61-78. ISSN 2463-7955 http://journals.um.si/index.php/medicine/article/view/142/107 https://doi.org/10.18690/ml&s.12.2.61-78.2019
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description	Technological developments in the domain of fertility treatment in spite of thier utilitarian uses come with a plethora of ethico-religious challenges for people of faith particularly if they contradict some of their core religious values and beliefs about human procreation. The most disruptive among such challenges is declaring parental choice of a specific gender to their future offspring as part of their reproductive liberty (right). As to how major semitic religions, such as Christionaity and Islam respond to it, the answer is polemical. Christianity genrally objects to it mainly because it turns procreation into a manufacturing business instead of leaving the sex of a baby to God. The Islamic position, on the other hand, is less rigid as the majority of Sunni Muslim legists, without much reflections on its ethical dilemmas, approve it not only for medical reason but also family balancing while dissenting views among them consider it a direct affront on what God has declard to be His domain of perfection of human procreation. This paper, therefore, argues that defining parents` decision on sexing a “right” or “liberty” is difficult to maintain unless a far-fetched perspective of scriptural texts is adopted.
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author	Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas
author_facet	Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah Abdul Razak, Mohd Abbas
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title	Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity
title_short	Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity
title_full	Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity
title_fullStr	Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity
title_full_unstemmed	Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity
title_sort	parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in muslim law and christianity
publisher	Faculty of Law (Slovenia), University of Maribor
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Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring: an analysis of the positions in Muslim law and Christianity

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