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

Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah; Razak, Mohd Abbas Abdul

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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
Authors:	ID Haneef, Sayed Sikandar Shah (Author) ID Razak, Mohd Abbas Abdul (Author)
Files:	https://journals.um.si/index.php/medicine/article/view/387 Description: Prost dostop
Language:	English
Work type:	Unknown
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	PF - Faculty of Law
Abstract:	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.
Keywords:	christianity, fertility, muslim law, reproductive liberty, sexing
Year of publishing:	2019
Number of pages:	str. 61-78
Numbering:	Vol. 12, iss. 2
PID:	20.500.12556/DKUM-78492
UDC:	34:618.177-089.888.11
ISSN on article:	2463-7955
COBISS.SI-ID:	45490179
DOI:	10.18690/mls.12.2.61-78.2019
NUK URN:	URN:SI:UM:DK:XGPZFH59
Publication date in DKUM:	14.01.2021
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Downloads:	42
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:	HANEEF, Sayed Sikandar Shah and RAZAK, Mohd Abbas Abdul, 2019, Parental reproductive liberty for choosing the sex of their offspring : an analysis of the positions in muslim law and christianity. [online]. 2019. Vol. 12, no. 2, p. 61–78. [Accessed 18 April 2025]. DOI 10.18690/mls.12.2.61-78.2019. Retrieved from: https://journals.um.si/index.php/medicine/article/view/387 Copy citation