للطلب والاستفسار 0789884552 Abortion is illegal in most circumstances in Jordan, where it is criminalised under articles 321-325 of the Jordanian Penal Code.
[5] In 2021, a study on medical students at the Jordan University of Science and Technology found that they overwhelmingly held a conservative view towards abortion, with over three-quarters (76.8%) indicating they believed every conceived child had a right to be born.
Increased rates of unsafe self-induced abortion have also been reported among Syrians in Jordanian refugee camps.
[8] In 2017, the Jordanian office of the women's rights organisation Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI) called for the government to change the abortion law and allow for terminations in the case pregnancy from rape or incest.
A number of fatwas have also been made on the topic of abortion since 1993 that appear to challenge some of the public health laws, including a 2014 edict from the Jordanian Council for Jurisprudence which requested that each case of an abortion requested as a result of rape or incest should be assessed individually.