Part of the essays focuses on reproductive rights. The texts clearly encourage fertility within the marriage institution as a decorative, and appealing practice in life. Tanzim Al Nasl is encouraged if the mother's health and well-being is at risk. Some, but not all, Islamic scholars view the use of the oral pill as an encouraged method. Other methods of fertility control that intervene with the natural cycle of reproduction or that are permanent are forbidden.
Abortion is encouraged in the Islamic texts if the mother's health or well-being at risk.
It is, however, permitted only during the first 120 days. The article is dated 1995. This document is dated September 1999. Contraception is not only licit but may often be morally mandatory. That is common teaching among Catholic and Protestant moral theologians.