Is it permissible to abort a forty-day-old fetus for a woman suffering from osteoporosis, joint problems, and constant nervous facial tics, and what is the expiation for that?
Scholars have agreed on the impermissibility of aborting a fetus after one hundred and twenty days (the blowing of the soul), and they differed on what precedes that. The correct view is its absolute impermissibility, though the prohibition is stronger after forty days, and expiation becomes obligatory. Abortion is not permissible except with a reliable medical report indicating an unbearable danger and harm in the fetus's continued presence, in which case no expiation is required.
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