Media and Abortion

Group MembersIqra Javed (FAL14-MB1-003)

Beenish Abdullah (FAL14-MB1-005)

Ayesha Asghar (FAL14-MB1-004)Media and Abortion

AbortionIt is the deliberate termination of human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeksThe abortion debate asks whether it can be morally right to terminate pregnancy before normal childbirth.Islam and abortion

Whosoever has spared the life of a soul, it is as though he has spared the life of all people. Whosoever has killed a soul, it is as though he has murdered all of mankind.

Quran 5:32Killing not your offspring for fear of poverty; it is We who provide for them and for you. Surely, killing them is a great sin.

Quran 17:32 Methods of AbortionNon-surgical abortion

Surgical abortion

Media Communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data or promotional messages are disseminated. Media includes every broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as news paper, magazines and TV, radio and internet.

Positive impact of MediaArrangement of public education campaigns

Seminars or press release for the issues

Social or Public messages for the issue

Negative impact of MediaTV dramas and films are the major source of misleading of young generation

Media misguiding the youngsters

Media is a main cause of female harassment

Media is biased

Law situations of PakistanAbortion is illegal in Pakistan as per law or Islam, because it is considered as a criminal act (murder).but it is legal in some cases. In 1990 the Pakistan Penal Code of 1860 and the Criminal Procedure Code of 1898 was amended. The purpose of the amendment was to bring the law into conformity with the injunctions of Islam, as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah. Since 1997, as a result of amendment of the Penal Code, abortion is allowed in the early stages of pregnancy not only to save the life of the woman, but also for providing necessary treatment. This has widened legal permission for carrying out the abortion in the early stages of pregnancyContinue According to estimates by the Guttmacher Institute, 890,000 women have unsafe abortions annually Eight hundred of these women will die and a further 197,000 will be hospitalized due to complications. "However even these figures are a gross underestimation, as so many cases go unreported.A Womans right to obtain an abortion by her own choice within the first 120 days of pregnancy should be unambiguously declared an absolute legal right (Source: Recommendation of the Commission of Inquiry for Women, Pakistan, Aug.1997). This still remains as a recommendation.

ContinueIn Pakistan there are many Govt and private institution which are working for this now likeNGOSTrustCampaigns (Women on Wave)Institutions (National Committee for Maternal & Neonatal Health and Guttmacher Institute )

Suggestions:media suggestion: 1:The time factor placement of stories quantity of time for coverage 2:use of language 3:non verbal element of clothingsuggestion on abortion: 1:abortion is illegal except under special circumstance . 2:medical approved abortion "a legal abortion"

References http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/media.htmlhttp://www.gargaro.com/abortionbias.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/abortion_1.shtmlhttp://www.guttmacher.org/media/infographics/USWomenWhoHaveAbortions-740.pdfhttp://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/index.htmlhttp://www.latimes.com/food/la-me-shaw01jul01-story.html#page=3