Muslim Intellectual Debunks Pro-Choice Islamic Scholars

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

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.

Chapters:

0:00 Introducing Javad
1:52 Muslim opinion polls on abortion
3:13 Javad’s view vs. how Muslims typically think about abortion
6:14 Josh clarifies Javad’s view
9:45 How science intersects with the abortion debate
10:24 Why women have abortions
12:48 Javad’s more liberal views on women’s rights within Islam
15:39 Wrapping up on statistics
16:41 Another pro-life Muslim scholar
18:01 Introducing YouTube clip #1
19:29 On Muslims believing the soul is breathed into the fetus at 120 days after conception
21:40 Next clip
21:48 On Muslim clerics not permitting abortion for financial reasons
24:43 Next clip
25:00 Muslim leaders sometimes say they are more pro-life than they actually are
26:02 Next clip
26:12 Responding to rape and fetal deformity exceptions
30:26 Next clip
30:52 More essentially pro-choice policies of Muslim clerics
31:31 Different Muslim views of ensoulment
36:38 Dr. Suleiman calls his position “neutral”, but is it really?
38:51 Next clip (including setup)
40:38 On Muslim cleric’s misrepresentation of Catholics on life of the mother exceptions
43:22 On common inconsistencies in Muslim’s views on abortion
45:08 Responding to the viability argument
46:54 Javad on pointing Muslims toward Christian philosophy
47:28 Next clip
47:54 More inconsistency
48:09 Next clip
51:32 This Muslim cleric says that 80 days after conception matters!
54:05 Pro-choice issues from even conservative, traditionalist Muslims in South Asia
55:16 More pro-choice positions from a conservative Muslim website
56:37 Setting up clip from a “bad boy” liberal Muslim making weak pro-choice arguments
57:54 Next clip
1:00:15 Responding to “I’m not going to force my views on others” argument
1:02:06 Responding to “nobody chooses abortion lightly”
1:04:46 Next clip
1:07:43 Responding to the “gradations of life” idea
1:12:48 Quick reviews of other Muslim videos and articles
1:18:13 Bodily autonomy arguments
1:27:34 What caused Javad to begin reconsidering his views on abortion?