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Question: What is the ruling of having an abortion before forty days due to psychological and social circumstances, particularly if the wife fears divorce [from her husband at any time] in the future?
Response: It is not permissible to terminate the pregnancy out of hatred for it, or to escape from it, this is not permissible.
If, however, this was medically called for, if this was medically called for by the doctors that it is necessary to abort this pregnancy due to the danger it was posing to the life of the mother – and the scholars had issued a fatwa in this regard, then it can be aborted.
This is not a matter which should be taken lightly, in that whoever wishes to terminate a pregnancy can do so; no!
It is necessary to have a medical report from the specialist doctors, and it is necessary to have a fatwa [from a qualified scholar] based upon this report.
Yes.
Translation originally published on 28 October, 2015
