Thread by @IslamRFI

After the Supreme Court issued #Dobbs some Muslim supporters of Roe v. Wade mocked the idea that Roe's extreme liberalization of #abortion led to promiscuity and contributed to the very problem that liberal abortion law purports to solve. And more fornication & more abortions. 🧵

But let's take a look at the Indiana lawsuit filed last month by the ACLU on behalf of a Muslim woman claiming that Indiana's new restrictive law on abortion violates her religious freedom because she follows the lenient position that Islam allows abortion before 120 days. 2/9

Indiana's law bans all abortions except if there’s a lethal fetal anomaly & in cases of rape & incest up to 10 weeks. The Muslim plaintiff in the ACLU suit says that violates her religious freedom as she believes Islam allows abortion before 120 days for any reason. 3/9

The unmarried Muslim plaintiff says the law harms her because it prevents her from having sex with her boyfriend, as she explained in her deposition in connection with the ACLU's motion for a preliminary injunction to block the law while litigation proceeds 4/9

Q: Is Indiana's new abortion law the only reason you're abstaining?
A: Absolutely. Absolutely.
Q: So no other religious or ethical considerations?
A: No.

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This is a specific example that is evidence for the general point that the extremely liberal abortion laws required by Roe encouraged sexual promiscuity by serving as birth control and reducing the costs of unwanted pregnancy. 6/9

Unsurprisingly, that's exactly what the research shows: this study found that "abortion legalization generated incentives leading to an increase in sexual activity, accompanied by an increase in sexually transmitted diseases." 7/9 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15457623/

In the specific case of the Muslim woman plaintiff in the Indiana lawsuit, the fall of Roe & the new restrictions on abortion are causing her to remain abstinent, a good for her in this life and the next, even though she is abstaining from zina (fornication) unwillingly. 8/9

One assumes Muslim supporters of liberal abortion laws are good & sincere & care about their religion, unless proven otherwise. So they should honestly acknowledge that liberal abortion laws encourage promiscuity (zina) & stricter laws encourage chastity ('iffa). End