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Article: Islam and birth control: not a moral conflict. (UN-sponsored book on Islamic views on family planning)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- June 1, 1993
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ABOUT HALF THE world's female population uses some form of birth control. In more developed countries, the figure runs even higher -- up to 72%. Still, the choice to control her own destiny and the size of her family is a basic human right that eludes many women in the Muslim world.
Indeed, it is a basic human right that many Muslim women believe their religion denies them. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has surveys to show that although a good many Muslim women want fewer children and may even know about different methods of birth control, these same women do not practice family planning, because they fear their religion does not allow it.
Now, ...