"FAMILY PLANNING"

Here is a fresh analysis of "FAMILY PLANNING". Please note that BIRTH CONTROL is something other than FAMILY PLANNING. When we refer to The Holy Qur’an which is The Final Commandment of ALLAH, the Lord of the Universe, we find an order in 17/31:

"Do not kill your children for fear of poverty. It is WE who shall provide sustenance for them as well as for you. Verily, killing them is a great sin."

(From Holy Qur'an 17/31)

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Similar orders are found in 6/140-141 and 6/152

In all the places, the original words are used: "LA-TAQTULU-AULADAKUM", means "Do not Kill your children". What is ordered is “not to kill”. Nothing is said here for Family Planning, but killing of children is a great sin. So if a child is on the earth, its killing is a great sin. So also if a child is in the womb of the mother, definitely it is a live entity, hence abortion also is killing of the child inside the womb.

When we refer to modern science, from the inception itself, the embryo is alive. Hence abortion without genuine reasons, from the day one of inception, is like "Killing". It is another matter what can be the genuine reasons. One that comes to mind is that may be when the life of the mother is in serious danger. In modern days, terms like legal and illegal abortions are used. Change in terminology or amendments in the laws does not change the matter. One should not confuse with terms like MTP (Medical Termination of pregnancy) or MR (Menstrual Regulation). To flush out the pregnancy by any means is like killing the child.

Here some of the religious heads and scholars say a very unscientific thing that after four months of the pregnancy, an Angel enters in the womb of the mother and put the life in that embryo. This is contradictory to what is mentioned in the Holy Qur'an. It is said in 76/2:

Verily, it is WE Who Created man out of a drop of sperm intermingled, so that WE might put him in test, and therefore WE made him a being endowed with hearing and sight."

(From Holy Qur'an 76/2)

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So when the sperm intermingles with the egg from the mother, process of creation starts and it becomes a live embryo called zygote and it passes in the uterus. Life is in it from the day one.