The third pre-meeting of the series of conference meetings was held on January 7, 2023, under the title of Abortion in Islam and Christianity with the presence of Dr. Alireza Al Bouyeh and Mrs. Katrina Joseph Droste, professor of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Italy.

Faculty member of the Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy said, From a jurisprudential point of view, there is an order of God, Prophet and his successors regarding the abortion as being Haram (forbidden); Of course, we don't have verses from the Quran that directly consider abortion as Haram, but we have general verses that can be used. Abortion is wrong from the Qur'anic point of view. In the words of the Shia imams (a.s.), there are many narratives according to which it is forbidden to kill the fetus from the moment of conception.

Alireza Ale Bouyeh, professor of the Islamic Seminary and university, on January 17, at the scientific meeting on abortion in Islam and Christianity, which was organized by Islamic Sciences and Culture Academy, said, "As Katrina Joseph Droste, a professor of the Aquinas University of Rome has pointed out that from the point of view of Christianity, abortion is wrong because human life is sacred and human has dignity, and this issue is fully emphasized and confirmed from the point of view of the Holy Qur'an."

Ale Bouye stated, "Various arguments have been presented on the wrongness of abortion, including Schwartz's argument of existential continuity, argument of a kind of essence, argument through potentiality and argument through the initiation of brain activity, and we can make stronger interpretations based on Islamic philosophy by referring to these arguments to establish intellectually and philosophically against abortion that many articles have been written and published in Persian language."

Abortion is immoral

The professor of Baqir al-Olum University said, "Allah, with all his greatness, with our ignorance and poverty and weakness, gives us a child who is God's caliph on earth and has the inherent right to life and dignity, and from God's spirit in He is breathed and he will experience eternity; So is it morally right for us to abort and destroy such a gift? In the eyes of the Qur'an, man is such a valuable being that the words "gift" and "Hebeh" are used for it, and this gift is from the moment of conception and fertilization of the egg, and abortion from this stage is wrong and ungrateful to God and an immoral act.