Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Muslim views on abortion are shaped by the Hadith as well as by the opinions of legal and religious scholars and commentators. In Islam, the fetus is believed to become a living soul after four months of gestation, and abortion after that point is generally viewed as impermissible. Many Islamic thinkers recognize exceptions to this rule for certain circumstances; indeed, Azizah Y. al-Hibri notes that \"the majority of Muslim scholars permit abortion, although they differ on the stage of fetal development beyond which it becomes prohibited.\" According to Sherman Jackson, \"while abortion, even during the first trimester, is forbidden according to a minority of jurists, it is not held to be an offense for which there are criminal or even civil sanctions,\" so Muslims should not support legal restrictions on abortion rights unsupported by Islamic law, as opposed to solely moral activism."@en }
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- Islam_and_abortion abstract "Muslim views on abortion are shaped by the Hadith as well as by the opinions of legal and religious scholars and commentators. In Islam, the fetus is believed to become a living soul after four months of gestation, and abortion after that point is generally viewed as impermissible. Many Islamic thinkers recognize exceptions to this rule for certain circumstances; indeed, Azizah Y. al-Hibri notes that \"the majority of Muslim scholars permit abortion, although they differ on the stage of fetal development beyond which it becomes prohibited.\" According to Sherman Jackson, \"while abortion, even during the first trimester, is forbidden according to a minority of jurists, it is not held to be an offense for which there are criminal or even civil sanctions,\" so Muslims should not support legal restrictions on abortion rights unsupported by Islamic law, as opposed to solely moral activism.".