الحماية القانونية لنوع الجنين في التشريع الجزائري: دراسة مقارنة في ضوء أحكام الشريعة الإسلامية

Abstract EN

The study aimed at exploring the legal protection of the gender of the embryo according to the Algerian legislation the light of the Islamic Law.

The study administered the descriptive comparative approach.

A review of literature was conducted.

The study reached the following findings; first, the Algerian legislation pays no attention to the issue of examining the gender of the embryo and this breaches the most supported opinion in Islamic Jurisprudence that the examination of the gender of the embryo is not permissible; second, the Algerian legislation agrees with the most supported opinion in Islamic Jurisprudence that the determination of the gender of the embryo is prohibited.

It is recommended that the Algerian legislation ought to take the issue of the examination of the gender of the embryo into consideration and to tackle it in accordance with what Islam prescribes in this matter.