I know you’re joking, but the sharia tradition is actually really complex and heterogeneous when it comes to the issue of abortion. There is disagreement between the (vastly more common) Hanafi school of thought which considers abortion permissible for any reason up to 4 months and in cases of maternal health thereafter, and the more conservative Maliki school which prohibits it. Modern Muslim-majority nations also represent a range of legal opinions: compare (relatively liberal) Tunisia or Uzbekistan with the Gulf nations (pretty restrictive) with South Sudan (totally prohibited). And many of those legal prohibitions were only put in place under colonial rule, and so arguably don’t really represent ‘tradition’ as much as Euro-Christian values.
I guess what I’m saying is, using ‘Sharia Law’ as a shorthand for ‘no matter how things are bad here, they’re always worse in the Muslim world’ is kinda unfair and inaccurate… in this case, it actually might be worse in America than in many Muslim-majority nations.
http://www.islamawareness.net/FamilyPlanning/Abortion/abortion3.html
