The hypothesis of changing the sex of the fetus and its provisions in Islamic jurisprudence

Abstract

After the development of modern medical studies and the qualitative scientific leap they witnessed brought about by the specialized scientific centers, it has been imposed as a reality that there must be an opinion from a religious point of view, determining the appropriate rulings for it in accordance with the Sharia principles and controls, and organizing the experiments and scientific outcomes resulting from these studies with disciplined rulings stemming from Of interests And rational and legal capabilities, and the importance of knowing the legal ruling varies from one medical product and practice to another insofar as it relates to humans and the benefits and harms that these medical practices and works cause.

Making changes to the sex of the fetus and its origin is one of the most important medical practices whose legal ruling must be known because of the risks that this may entail to the life of the fetus or the life of its mother, and the disruption it may cause in the system of human society, and preserving all of that is one of the priorities of sacred law.

This research comes to examine this type of study, whether it is in conducting its first experiments in the field of embryos and before the formation of the fetus, and the harms that result from its failure, or assuming its success and achievement, and seeking to work on it on a broader scale among societies, and all of these matters must It must be in accordance with legal and rational methods and regulated by jurisprudential provisions Clear and precise.