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Is it permissible to abort a new pregnancy that occurred against the wife's will, given the presence of four children, her facing great hardship in raising them, her distance from her family, and her exhaustion from a previous birth that caused her hemorrhaging?

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If the fetus is still in its initial stage—which is the first forty days of pregnancy—there is no objection to aborting it, considering the circumstances mentioned in the question.

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