{"id":5848,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/abortion\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:26","slug":"abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>We  would like to take help and opinion on an issue that I and my wife are  facing. My wife is 40 years old and I am 39. We just found out that  Mahallah she is pregnant. We have Mashallah 2 kids, son 12 and daughter  who is 6. She got pregnant after almost 6.5 years. Yesterday we found  out that she might be carrying twins. Hence we are both in a state of  mind whether we would be able to raises 4 kids at this stage of our  life. There are following considerations: 1- We are not financially very  strong; hence we belong to very average family in this regard. 2- We  both work, and my wife contributes to our work. (we live is USA) Major  Consideration: 3- I unfortunately suffered a heart attack at the age of  36 and have 4 stents and are on medication. I did suffer from heart  damage. Hence in our case the life of mother is not in danger, but it is  the increased burden on myself and the stress factor in heart problem,  and my fear if God Forbid some thing happens to me, I will leave 4 kids  behind which will be much more difficult raising than 2 children. She is  only 4.5 weeks in the pregnancy hence no life has been conceived. Given  our situation would it be permissible to terminate the pregnancy.  Kindly please help us given our situation and guide us as we are faced  with this question.<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>According  to Mr Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, abortion before 120 days can be done if the  couple has a comprehensible and valid reason for doing so. The reason of  course should appear valid and sound to the couple. This is enough for  them to take a decision.<\/p>\n<div>However, after 120 days, this is absolutely forbidden unless of course the life of the mother is in danger.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Dr. Shehzad Saleem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-03<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"5848\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We  would like to take help and opinion on an issue that I and my wife are  facing. My wife is 40 years old and I am 39. We just found out that  Mahallah she is pregnant. We have Mashallah 2 kids, son 12 and daughter  who is 6. She got pregnant after almost 6.5 years. Yesterday we found  out that she might be carrying twins. Hence we are both in a state of  mind whether we would be able to raises 4 kids at this stage of our  life. There are following considerations: 1- We are not financially very  strong; hence we belong to very average family in this regard. 2- We  both work, and my wife contributes to our work. (we live is USA) Major  Consideration: 3- I unfortunately suffered a heart attack at the age of  36 and have 4 stents and are on medication. I did suffer from heart  damage. Hence in our case the life of mother is not in danger, but it is  the increased burden on myself and the stress factor in heart problem,  and my fear if God Forbid some thing happens to me, I will leave 4 kids  behind which will be much more difficult raising than 2 children. She is  only 4.5 weeks in the pregnancy hence no life has been conceived. Given  our situation would it be permissible to terminate the pregnancy.  Kindly please help us given our situation and guide us as we are faced  with this question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1162],"tags":[1271,1272,1273],"class_list":["post-5848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-issues","tag-abortion","tag-pregnancy","tag-pregnant"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abortion - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abortion - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We would like to take help and opinion on an issue that I and my wife are facing. 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