Open Access Review Article

Family Planning in Sudan Training Course in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research 2014 WHO

Ahmed Bashir*

Consultant Pediatrician, Harvard Medical School, USA

Corresponding Author

Received Date: December 21, 2020;  Published Date: January 10, 2020

Abstract

The Penal Code of 1 August 1925 (section 262-267) governed Abortion in Sudan until 1983. Under this code Abortion was prohibited unless it is to save the life of the pregnant woman. A person performing abortion with the woman consent was subject to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 years or payment of a fine if the aborts reached the stage of “quickening”. In 1983 the code was changed to meet the legislation designed to meet the Islamic law, although the performance of abortion is still prohibited, , but the punishment was changed to payment of blood money. Persons performing abortions are subject to payment of compensation as well as imprisonment.

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