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This paper aims to study the view of abortion in Islamic world and the current state of abortion in MENA countries. First, the researcher studied Islam’s outlook on marriage as a premise for understanding this paper. All countries except Israel in the MENA region forbid abortion based on the religious reasons although the Quran and Hadīth don’t speak clearly about abortion. Islam insists that killing an innocent person is like killing the entire human race. Because abortion is a crime of murder, the researcher has come to the conclusion that the population of Islamic countries is increasing. Abortion in Islam is not a generalized topic because it is considered haram (prohibition by Allah), so it belongs to the domain of Allah rather than human beings. It is impossible to determine abortion standards as a standard of western society. However, there is a view that it is necessary to reconsider the traditional concept of abortion due to westernization and the expansion of education due to the influence of SNS. Nevertheless, Islam is deeply rooted in the base of Islamic societies, and the possibility of abortion tolerance in the future seems unlikely. All of Islamic juristic schools agree that abortion is permissible in order to save the life of a pregnant woman, and even though abortion is allowed until the end of four months of pregnancy, it is never encouraged for Muslims. As we see in table 2, it has been noted that Tunisia, Bahrain and Turkey are tolerant countries for abortion, and other countries are strictly against abortion because of religious reasons. However, the success rate for contraception is expected to increase relatively in the future.