What is the ruling on removing a deformity in the fetus caused by a medication taken by the mother in the early months of pregnancy?

The questioner : And there are two other points regarding this topic.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : First, regarding the period of the soul's infusion into it, how is it determined with certainty? The second aspect is that there is no difference among sound humans, meaning between a black person and a white person.

The Shaykh: Yes.

The questioner : There is no difference, I mean, but if we are certain that a person, for example, due to his mother taking a medication, for example, during the early period of pregnancy, resulted in a disorder in the composition of the fetus itself, and he was born with, for example, four hands or two heads, and we are certain that he will live in a deformed state, or that his mind and nervous system, for example, will not enable him to think or to be a sound human being at all, ... just two issues.

The Shaykh : This issue differs in my view from the previous discussion if it is established from a scientific standpoint that the cause of this deformity occurred due to the mother taking certain medications that have that bad effect in diverting the fetus's structure from the natural state, meaning the divine state, to another creation. What comes to my mind now is that we used to know, until recently, and I do not know if this practice is still continuing in China, that in China they used to confine their feet in iron shoes with the intention that these feet not grow large. This confinement undoubtedly causes the foot to wither and shrink. This is not of the creation we mentioned earlier, which Allah (Mighty and Majestic) directly creates, but rather it is the work of man, like the disfigurement we mentioned earlier that it is not permissible for a Muslim to disfigure the body of a dead person, let alone a living one. So I think regarding this addendum to the question, it may be possible, and the doctors know better than us about this, that the mother taking these pills or medications during her pregnancy and the fetus's early stages of life may have affected the formation of the fetus in a way that, had she not taken those medications, the fetus would have been created naturally. When we envision the situation this way, it may then be possible to treat the matter, even by way of changing Allah's creation, because in this case and in this manner, this is not a creation directly from Allah, but rather the result of a human's action through his ignorance, and the result of that was that the newborn came out deformed. As the professor mentioned, he has many hands or fingers, so there is no harm in excising these excesses as long as we are convinced that they are not directly from Allah's creation, but rather a natural result of this person's ignorance in taking those medications, which we can call distorting Allah's (Mighty and Majestic) creation from the beauty He informed us of in His saying (Exalted is He): .