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King Mohammed VI opens a panel on Abortion
In an initiative to find an adequate resolution for the issue of abortion, King Mohammed IV had received the Minister of Justice, Minister of Islamic Affairs, and the president of the National council of Human Rights, to encourage them launch a panel among clerics, doctors and legislators to look into the issue.
The King has asked the CNDH , then, to work within four weeks for a draft of a proposal to be submitted to his Majesty.
The royal initiative would for sure offer women some of the broadest legal protections in the region.
Only Tunisia, which liberalized its law in 1973, the same year the U.S. legalized abortion, would have fewer restrictions. Most Muslim-majority countries draw on religious texts, colonial-era ordinances and common laws to prohibit abortion or limit it to pregnancies that threaten a woman’s life, according to the London-based solidarity network, Women Living under Muslim Laws.
