The Synergy between the Legal Framework on Reproductive Health in Nigeria and the Islamic Law
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2021-07
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Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
Abstract
Human rights efforts on sexual and reproductive health reforms to address the unsavory realities of the right to reproductive health. Bud decades of reproductive health reforms have not solved the problems of abortion, unsafe motherhood, genital mutilation, child control among others with adverse impact on the potential benefits in Nigeria, despite the legal instrument which vested right to reproductive health particularly in both rural and semi-urban areas persists in its informal characteristics thereby undermining women mortality rate. The paper found the meal to explore the position of Islamic Law in order to be fair to the Muslims since the Nigerian legal system is tripartite. At the moment must literature on sexual and health reproduction is customary and common law-oriented. There are little or no efforts towards providing adequate measures to address the main causer of reproductive health problems and failure of which has led to many children being abandoned and uncared for in Nigeria. Unfortunately, the Islamic position is yet to be explored as a reform In under to ensure the security and health status of Nigerian Muslim women. This paper adopts mainly a qualitative legal research method. The doctrinal legal research method is seed to identify the relevant primary and secondary materials relevant to this paper. It is therefore expedient to compare the Islamic position on sexual and reproductive health in order to guarantee the right of all citizens especially Muslim women, to control all aspects of their health, in particular and their fertility which is basic to their.
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Legal Framework, Reproductive health Rights, Islamic Law, Muslims and Nigeria
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The Journal of International and Comparative Law