objective: to review the current situation regarding prenatal diagnosis (pnd) in islamic countries. methods: a descriptive study (narrative review) has been done based on the available data in formal international and national published documents in 2013. the sources were papers, websites and electronic books. time limitation of searches has started 20 years ago. the main languages were english...

at different frames of time, most countries have had different approaches to the issue of abortion. also after some years, in the islamic republic of iran, with the ratification of a single article in 1384, therapeutic abortion was announced as permissible; but the above mentioned article lacks the necessary clarification and has some ambiguities that make its interpretation and even correction...

background : abortion has never been a mere medical issue; rather, because of its widespread effects on the personal, social, economic, political and cultural matters has been almost globally noticed by governments in some way. the therapeutic abortion act ratified by islamic assembly of iran in 2005 followed by instruction of the forensic medicine organization confirms this claim. although, ba...

saving patients' lives is an important duty for physicians. regardless of the level of a physician’s skills, there is always a possibility of damage or loss in patients’ life. in jurisprudence, there is a dispute as to whether a physician is responsible if he commits medical mistakes in the course of treatment. some scholars believe that a physician is always responsible for damages related to ...

s:2987:"Although the definition of abortion is pregnancy loss under 20 weeks of gestational age, in Islamic law, termination pregnancy in any gestational age is considered abortion "SEGHT JANIN". Also only "induced abortion" has legal validity, and other kinds of miscarriage (recurrent, missed,…) have no legal or ethical issue. In Iran, Islam is the base of the law. Article 4 of Iran constituti...