Objections on the Establishment and Utilization of Breastfeeding Banks and the Correspondent Responses from Shī a and Sunnī Fiqh Perspective.

Given the importance of breast milk for medical reasons and the difficulty of its constant availability, the idea of the establishment and use of breast milk in developed countries, and recently in the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been put into effect. The question of this research is whether the establishment and use of a breastfeeding bank are permissible in Shariah? A large number of Sunni jurists have negative stance while there is no significant conducted research on this subject by Shiite scholars. In this article, one of the most important objections of Sunnī fiqh on this subject is expressed. Thereafter, their criticism is expressed from the perspective of Shī a and Sunnī schools of fiqh. This article concludes that establishing a breastfeeding bank and taking advantage of it is legitimate.