Indonesian Comparative Law Review
Vol 2, No 1: December 2019

A Comparative Legal Studies of Abortion Policies in Indonesia, Malaysia and England

Firzaa, Nur Ras (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2019

Abstract

This paper aims to address the issue of abortion from the perspective of Malaysian law, Indonesian law, English law and Islamic Jurisprudence. It will look into the three national laws to extricate ruling in regards to abortion and simultaneously making an effort to have knowledge on the ruling of abortion taking into consideration of Islamic Jurisprudence. This paper also critically discussed the law cases that had been decided by courts in each jurisdiction and made comparison to identify both the similarities and dissimilarities. The paper had reached some fundamental outcome which are: Malaysian law and Indonesian law impede abortion except in case of necessity and when there are reasonable justifications, however, English law provides that abortion can be done if the fetus is less than 24 weeks of pregnancy. In addition, the scholars are in consensus that abortion is prohibit when the fetus starts to breath.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

iclr

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Indonesian Comparative Law Review (ICLR) (ISSN: 2655-2353, E-ISSN:2655-6545 is a periodical scientific-journal published by the Faculty of Law, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta in collaboration with the Indonesian Association of Comparative Laws. The journal will be published twice a year in ...