Is it permissible for a pregnant woman to discontinue a prescribed stabilizing treatment, given that there is a hormonal cyst that may disappear on its own, and that the treatment is not for the cyst, and that discontinuing the treatment may lead to miscarriage?
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It is not permissible to abandon the prescribed medication for a pregnant woman, because it protects the fetus from miscarriage. Causing the expulsion of the embryo after its establishment in the womb is considered forbidden by a group of scholars even before the ensoulment. It is unanimously forbidden if it is after the ensoulment without necessity.
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