Human Shape: A New Proposed Criterion for Fetal Personhood-Juniper Publishers-Global Journal Of Reproductive Medicine

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Human Shape: A New Proposed Criterion for Fetal Personhood

Authored by Seyed Mohammad Azin

This perspective aims at introduction of a new criterion for fetal personhood based on Shii’a thought. Although there is a known idea in Islamic Shii'a jurisprudence which identifies end of fourth month of pregnancy as the moment of acquiring personhood, this paper suggests end of third month as the point at which the fetus has to be considered human person.

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