Promoting Sterilization through the Press

Question

Question: I am the editor of a small magazine, “Aaj ki Kasht” (“Today’s Cultivation”). In the newspaper business there are certain constraints, because of which actions contrary to the Sacred Law are sometimes committed as well. But at present this matter is spreading very intensely in our area: that I should propagate “family planning” and write articles inclining people towards sterilization.

Answer

Whatever is impermissible and a sin under the Sacred Law, encouraging it is also impermissible and a sin under the Sacred Law.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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