The entire today’s human communities are faced with a disorder called criminal induced abortion; but another type of the induced abortion is medical abortion that cannot be considered criminal. The current analytical-descriptive study has made based on library research to find an answer to the question as to “what has the Islamic Republic of Iran legally approached the induced abortion, including criminal and medical?” The holy Quran and the Islamic jurisprudence, venerating the human personality, from the very beginning of fetus creation and formation till the birth and afterwards up to the point of death spreads a comprehensive legal system before the mankind in which fetus protection and the necessity to observe its honor and reverence is a principle. Shiite jurisprudential verdicts regarding fetus and, subsequently, the regulations that are currently being exercised in Iran’s criminal law follow the same principle implying that every single one of the human beings even in embryonic stage should enjoy identical conditions and criteria of “human veneration” and “the right to live”. Human veneration and the right to live are the origins of all the other rights and if these are ignored the other human rights will be abused as well.
