Is it permissible to abort a malformed fetus – before the ensoulment (نفخ الروح) – if its chance of survival is almost non-existent, and if it were to live, it would depend on medical devices?
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Aborting a malformed fetus before the ensoulment—which occurs after 120 days of gestation—is not forbidden, and this is what the Islamic Fiqh Academy has decided.
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