The Ruling on Abortion Before Forty Days
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, what is the ruling on abortion if the pregnancy has become a burden, or if the pregnancy is something, and if the fetus is less than forty days old?
Answer:
This abortion, this is not permissible. The default is that the fetus is forbidden to be terminated. However, if the doctors determine that keeping this fetus in its mother’s womb is a danger to her life, then abortion is permissible to avert the harm. As for her aborting based on her own desire, without a report from the doctors and without a fatwa from the scholars, this is not permissible. Because the pregnancy is a responsibility, a responsibility upon her. The pregnancy in her womb is a trust that she must protect, and she must not be lax in its matter, and she must not[Al-Baqarah 2:228] meaning, regarding the pregnancy, so she must protect it with the utmost care, and she must not abort it except for a valid reason and with a fatwa from the scholars.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, what is the ruling on abortion if the pregnancy has become a burden, or if the pregnancy is something, and if the fetus is less than forty days old?
Answer:
This abortion, this is not permissible. The default is that the fetus is forbidden to be terminated. However, if the doctors determine that keeping this fetus in its mother’s womb is a danger to her life, then abortion is permissible to avert the harm. As for her aborting based on her own desire, without a report from the doctors and without a fatwa from the scholars, this is not permissible. Because the pregnancy is a responsibility, a responsibility upon her. The pregnancy in her womb is a trust that she must protect, and she must not be lax in its matter, and she must not
conceal what Allah has created in their wombs
يَكْتُمْنَ مَا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ فِي أَرْحَامِهِنَّ
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