Is it permissible to abort a malformed fetus that doctors have determined will not survive or will die days after birth, in order to avoid a risk to the mother's life, knowing that there is no genetic cause for its condition?
It is not permissible to abort the fetus at all, unless its continued presence poses a definitive danger to the mother's life. As for fetal malformation, it does not permit abortion.
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