News Right Now: Total Confusion

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In a historic and far-reaching decision last week, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade, a legal precedent made nearly 50 years ago declaring the constitutional right to an abortion. This change in the law is not an outright ban on abortions, but it is a change that has effectively handed the matter back to individual states to decide their own abortion legislation, and in practice, this will likely result in liberal States such as New York and California having very permissive abortion laws, and a number of conservative States having abortion laws that will include full protections for unborn children.

Roe vs. Wade is a 1973 lawsuit that famously led to the Supreme Court making a ruling on abortion rights. Norma McCorvey using the alias of Jane Roe, was an unmarried pregnant woman, who filed a suit on behalf of herself and others against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, to challenge Texas abortion laws. At the time, abortion was illegal in Texas unless it was done to save the mother's life. It was a crime to get an abortion or to attempt one. So Roe’s legal argument was... 1, that the Texas law invaded an individual's right to "liberty" under the 14th Amendment - 2, that the Texas law infringed on rights to marital, familial, and sexual privacy guaranteed by the Bill of Rights – and 3, that the right to an abortion is absolute - a person is entitled to end a pregnancy at any time, for any reason, in any way they choose.

In 1973 the Supreme Court ruled in favour of Roe, deciding to change the way states can regulate abortion, and characterized abortion as something that was covered under constitutional rights of privacy. The justices acknowledged that being forced to continue a pregnancy puts a lot at risk, such as: a woman’s physical health, her mental health, it increases her financial burdens, and that pregnancy carries with it a social stigma. Initially the Supreme Court had defined the rights of each party by dividing pregnancy into three 12-week trimesters: Ruling that in the first trimester a state cannot regulate abortion, except that its carried out by a qualified medical practitioner – that during the second trimester an abortion should be reasonably related to the mental or physical health of the pregnant person. And that during the third trimester the state’s interest in protecting the potential human life may outweigh the right to privacy. Essentially despite this apparent detail, almost all abortions fitted into this framework throughout the length of a pregnancy ever since.

The prominence and clout of the pro-life lobby in the US, it’s clear that the country is divided on the issue of abortion. Recent polling shows that 69% of women believe that there should be significant restrictions on abortion. Also that 69% of women believe that abortion should be available, at most, during the first three months of pregnancy, allowed only in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother, or never permitted. A further 21% of women believed that abortion should not be legal after the third month of pregnancy. However given the demonstrations across the country, some resulting in violence and arson attacks on pro-life pregnancy centres, and the demonstrations outside the homes of the justices involved in overturning the decision, it’s clear that the right to abortion with little or no restriction is craved by the masses in America.

Across the world the view of abortion is much the same. The so called civilised west not only enables abortion but promotes it as an absolute right a woman has - to choose what happens to her body and the freedom to change her mind at any time, with no concern for the fetus. Likewise, in the global south, western NGO’s drip feed the same degraded thoughts to women and young girls under the guise of getting an education and taking on western style work patterns via seemingly helpful initiatives.

The prevalence of secular liberal thought, exported via the global institutions – ideas surrounding contraception and abortion are blurred and both are presented as a means and a positive step towards population control - and even disingenuously passed off as essential for women’s health. The real reason for the West’s obsession with abortion has nothing to do with preserving a mother’s life or supporting a victim of rape!

The West demands that abortion is a constitutional right, as it enables the ideological right to personal freedom – the freedom that is, to commit zina! And in this way abortion is used to uphold the western liberal lifestyle of zina as it erases its consequences. Due to this depraved solution, abortion is promoted almost everywhere, even in schools to girls as young as 11, as well as offices, libraries, and even supermarkets!

Zina is made inconsequential, and all its evils are overlooked and even accepted as necessary for this much cherished freedom to exist, laws are regularly passed in western country’s that consistently lower the legal age to have an abortion – and these laws are in line with the legal age of consent which is also lowered regularly; therefore generating a filthy, lewd and animalistic atmosphere in society which encourages sexual promiscuity among people of all ages without consideration for any of the consequences, or responsibility towards babies and children, parenting, marriage or family life.

Islam's view of life is based on Shari evidences, which according to the opinions of classical scholars begins at either 40 or 120 days when the spirit of life or soul – the ruh, enters the body. Islam legislates that if there is a risk to the mother’s life, and in instances of rape or if the mother is suffering from a physical or mental illness that limit her capacity to care for the child among a few other exceptions, abortion is allowed, and naturally it is considered most preferable before the ruh is blown into the body. Aside from this Islam legislates an entire framework of societal relations, and within this framework the relationship between men and women is defined as one of co-operation, to enable goodness and progress throughout society and prevent lewdness and degeneracy. Marriage cements the rights and responsibilities men and women have towards each other, and the children that come from that marriage through a unique divine set of roles. These roles establish a harmonious atmosphere which pervades society, generating the highest ethics through which society can flourish.

Allah swt says:

(وَمِنۡ اٰيٰتِهٖۤ اَنۡ خَلَقَ لَكُمۡ مِّنۡ اَنۡفُسِكُمۡ اَزۡوَاجًا لِّتَسۡكُنُوۡۤا اِلَيۡهَا وَجَعَلَ بَيۡنَكُمۡ مَّوَدَّةً وَّرَحۡمَةً  ؕ اِنَّ فِىۡ ذٰ لِكَ لَاٰيٰتٍ لِّقَوۡمٍ يَّتَفَكَّرُوۡنَ )

“And of His signs is that He created for you from yourselves mates that you may find tranquility in them; and He placed between you affection and mercy. Indeed there are signs for people who give thought.” [Surah ar Room v 21].

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