What is the ruling on drinking herbs to abort a dead fetus that is two and a half months old? Does this entail sin? Is it obligatory to name and bury the fetus?
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If the death of the fetus in its mother's womb is confirmed by reliable doctors, then there is no sin in aborting it, and no blame upon the mother for that. A miscarried fetus that has not completed four months is not named, nor is an 'aqiqah performed for it, nor is it washed, nor is a funeral prayer offered for it. It may be buried anywhere, because the soul is not breathed into it before this period.
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