Evaluation of abortion from the perspective of Islamic law and jurisprudence

The origin of human embryonic period legal personality, the holy legislator and the legislator's attention. Support for the fetus has long been in human societies, considered abortion to end the pregnancy before the twentieth week, refers. Many social problems such as unwanted pregnancies or illegitimate child, asymmetry in gender, having many children, pregnancies resulting from rape, has provided fertile ground for abortion. Legislator Islamic Republic of Iran with regard to the guidelines of Islamic law, even to the stage of conception and inspiration to the soul, gives a certain value to the extent that even the fetus has rights, including the right to live like other people he knows. In this study, the scholars of Islam, abortion at any stage of the move, if there for abortion, abortion is considered prohibited. According to Rule hardship, the prohibition of abortion in the circumstances was canceled because no denying fault of one of the rules of Islamic jurisprudence competent authority, so that if it is established that pregnancy and pregnancy entails hardship, abortion is permissible. Thus, the prohibition of abortion from the perspective of the majority of jurists, is not absolute and exceptions are a problem.