00971508021841-Do equivalent women travel to Sharjah for professional reasons?

No, the females living in Sharjah know quite a lot about their experiences in reproductive health. Since women have to live with restricted abortion rules in the UAE, they refrain from settling down here.

Yet, many Malayali expatriates are living in Sharjah. Another expatriate population comes from various countries from different corners of the world.

And all of them have to abide by the rules persisting in the country they are residing, even the abortion rules.

In reality, there are many incidences like a contraceptive failure, sexual assaults or some intimate acts ending up in unplanned pregnancies. And women in the UAE do not have any legal way out of these unwanted pregnancies.

Many couples living there are either in a live-in relationship or are in their courtship period. Many others choose to marry back in their native countries. They do get into intimate physical relationships that end in unplanned pregnancies.

But neither they can carry the pregnancy ahead as unmarried couples. Nor do they have an abortion in the UAE as a choice.

Let’s have a look at these rules.
Abortion rules in the UAE:
Abortions are governed by a different set of rules framed by the governments of different countries. If you are considering abortion in Sharjah, then the abortion rules you may have to abide by are framed in section 340 of the UAE penal code.

According to these rules, abortion in UAE is illegal with two exceptions:

When abortion is necessary to save the woman’s life.

When the abortion is done in case of severe fetal anomalies.

However, only married women can have abortions under the aforementioned cases. In case of fetal anomalies, abortion is allowed only for up to 120-days. Moreover, not all fetal anomalies or deformities are allowed for abortions.

In addition, many fetal deformities are detected in the late stage of pregnancy. However, abortion at 20-weeks in UAE is not allowed in those cases.

Unmarried girls or the girls getting pregnant as a result of sexual assault on them have no choice at all. Even married ones do not have a choice of abortion in the UAE because they want it.

Some girls discover that they are pregnant after breaking up with their partners or boyfriends. They too are not in a position to carry on with the pregnancy. But they also do not have a legal choice to end the unwanted pregnancy in the UAE.

So, where do they go? Where to seek help from?

The technology has advanced and almost every hand has access to a smartphone. And not to forget, the telecommunication network with Internet access. So, these girls turn to online sources for gaining help.

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