Is the mother considered sinful if she aborted her fetus in the seventh month based on the advice of doctors and a religious scholar who confirmed the impossibility of its life due to severe birth defects, and the fetus died immediately upon birth?
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If the doctor and the advise performing a delivery operation with the fetus placed in an incubator, then there is no sin upon the mother for what occurred; because it is not considered a forbidden abortion, but rather the extraction of the fetus alive for its benefit and the benefit of its mother.
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