Pregnancy: Right Or Duty
Subject Areas : Family Law
1 - Master of Private Law, Department of Law, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Gilan University, Rasht, Iran.
Keywords: pregnancy, Childbearing, Right, La Zarar Rule, Misconduct .,
Abstract :
Matrimony is a sacred event and different affects and consequences arise from it. One of the purposes of people in marriage is having baby, a baby who is the plenipotentiary representative of his/her parents. However, sometimes husband is opposed to her wife pregnancy without any compelling reason. The question is whether childbearing is a right? And if the answer is positive, it is the right of both wife and husband or just one of them? We can understand from the context of jurists and Islamic scholars that childbearing is a right of both parents (not merely a right for man). As husband has the right of getting pregnant, the wife also has the right to become pregnant.According to La Zarar (no prejudice) rule and the assumption of husband’s misconduct, the wife would have the right to divorce if the right of wife (become pregnant) be ignored and man refuse to have a baby.
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