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Is abortion permissible due to poor financial circumstances and fear of the husband's imprisonment and being left alone?

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What the questioner mentioned does not justify aborting her fetus. The fear of poverty and the burden of living expenses is not an excuse; rather, it falls under the Quranic prohibition: "And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you" and "And do not kill your children for fear of poverty. We provide for them and for you. Indeed, their killing is a great sin." The Council of Senior Scholars has ruled that it is not permissible to abort a pregnancy in the first stage (the first forty days) for fear of difficulty in raising children, inability to meet expenses, or being content with a certain number of children.

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