Abortion

Question

I am a doctor. A girl came to me to have a three-month pregnancy aborted and said: “If you do not abort the pregnancy, I will kill myself; my marriage is about to take place.” In such a situation, may the pregnancy be aborted or not? Before this I have already performed six abortions, but now I fear God. Please write some correct way so that I do not become a sinner.

Answer

As for the girl who came and said, “I have an unlawful pregnancy, I am not yet married, let it be aborted”: if the pregnancy is such that life (jan) has not yet entered it, then aborting it is correct (permissible); after life has entered it, it will not be aborted.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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