#72: Muslim Intellectual Debunks Pro-Choice Islamic Scholars (with Dr. Javad Hashmi)

Equipped for Life Podcast

In this episode Muslim intellectual Dr. Javad Hashmi refutes pro-choice arguments made by famous Islamic scholars.

Javad reacts to multiple videos in this episode, so to watch this episode on YouTube, click here: https://youtu.be/4DKXWOKhjeE Otherwise, there are links to everything he references in the description below.

Javad T. Hashmi is a board-certified emergency physician, former Fellow of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion (Islamic Studies) at Harvard University. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Hashmi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from U.C. Berkeley and Harvard respectively.

Related Links:

Watch or listen to the first episode with Javad: https://bit.ly/3AWjGv3

AltMuslimah: "I am a Muslim Woman and I chose to Have an Abortion" https://bit.ly/2X39thw

Dr. Irving in International Journal of Scoiology and Social Policy: "When do Human Beings Begin? 'Scientific' Myths and Scientific Facts" https://bit.ly/3DyQR8H

The statistics on why women have abortions was quoted from Abort73.com/s U.S. Abortion Statistics page, which is quoting the Guttmacher Institute's 2004 survey of 1,209 post-abortive women https://bit.ly/3v7qbJ7 (Abort73) https://bit.ly/3DxJput (Guttmacher Survey Table - PDF)

Hamza Yusuf: "When Does a Human Fetus Become Human?" https://bit.ly/3BAPWnV

YouTube clip #1: Abortion in Islam | Animation https://youtu.be/B6iUY1kks-s

Dr. Omar Suleiman: Islam and the Abortion Debate: https://bit.ly/3lEPtvq

YouTube clip #2: Islamic Ruling On Abortion due to Medical Reasons https://youtu.be/yY6n7glG6Y0

YouTube clip #3: Is Abortion permissible in Islam or not? - Sheikh Assimalhakeem https://youtu.be/-Z6DygN6IJI

BeautifulIslam.net (South Asia article): Abortion and Doctor's Situation https://bit.ly/2YIAE1G

Islam Question & Answer: Ruling on aborting a pregnancy in the early stages https://bit.ly/2YSpLuv

YouTube clip #4: The Ruling on Abortion | Mufti Abu Layth https://youtu.be/SU9McOtBDT8

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: Islam and Reproductive Choice https://bit.ly/3FUhJSO

ERI Bodily Rights landing page: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com/BodilyRights/

Follow Javad at https://twitter.com/DrJavadTHashmi

00:00 Introducing Javad

02:13 Muslim opinion polls on abortion

03:34 Javad's view vs. how Muslims typically think about abortion

06:35 Josh clarifies Javad's view

10:06 How science intersects with the abortion debate

10:45 Why women have abortions

13:09 Javad's more liberal views on women's rights within Islam

16:00 Wrapping up on statistics

17:02 Another pro-life Muslim scholar

18:22 Introducing YouTube clip #1

19:50 On Muslims believing the soul is breathed into the fetus at

120 days after conception

22:01 Next clip

22:09 On Muslim clerics not permitting abortion for financial reasons

25:04 Next clip

25:21 Muslim leaders sometimes say they are more pro-life than they actually are

26:23 Next clip

26:33 Responding to rape and fetal deformity exceptions

30:47 Next clip

31:13 More essentially pro-choice policies of Muslim clerics

31:52 Different Muslim views of ensoulment

36:59 Dr. Suleiman calls his position "neutral", but is it really?

39:12 Next clip (including setup)

40:59 On Muslim cleric's misrepresentation of Catholics on life of the mother exceptions

43:43 On common inconsistencies in Muslim's views on abortion

45:29 Responding to the viability argument

47:15 Javad on pointing Muslims toward Christian philosophy

47:49 Next clip

48:15 More inconsistency

48:30 Next clip

51:53 This Muslim cleric says that 80 days after conception matters!

54:26 Pro-choice issues from even conservative, traditionalist Muslims in South Asia

55:37 More pro-choice positions from a conservative Muslim website

56:58 Setting up clip from a "bad boy" liberal Muslim making weak pro-choice arguments

58:15 Next clip

1:00:36 Responding to "I'm not going to force my views on others" argument

1:02:27 Responding to "nobody chooses abortion lightly"

1:05:07 Next clip

1:08:04 Responding to the "gradations of life" idea

1:13:09 Quick reviews of other Muslim videos and articles

1:18:34 Bodily autonomy arguments

1:27:55 What caused Javad to begin reconsidering his views on abortion?

Host: Josh Brahm Guest: Dr. Javad T. Hashmi Audio/Video Editor: Chapter One Films & Josh Brahm Publisher: Jen Westmoreland