PREMIUM
Family & Parenting
Why Muslim women want abortion decriminalised
The petitioners contend that abortion is permitted in Islam under the principle of sanctity of life and ensoulment, which occurs at 120 days, approximately four months into the pregnancy, based on the Quran.
(L-R) Lawyers Muhammad Mariam, Shakira Nabagolooba, Yasimin Kiriswa, and Haura Nalubega from Islamic Women’s Initiative for Justice, Law and Peace filing the petition at the Constitutional Court in Kampala on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.
By: Barbra Kabahumuza, Journalists @New Vision
KAMPALA - Two Muslim women have petitioned court, seeking a declaration that Uganda’s punitive abortion laws are unconstitutional for failing to provide exceptions permitted under Islamic jurisprudence and