Nor may you resort to stratagems to abort the fetus or rid yourself of it by any means, for Allah—exalted is He—has granted you the concession of breaking the fast in Ramadan if fasting proves too difficult during pregnancy or if it harms the fetus. The contemporary prevalence of abortion procedures is a prohibited act. When the fetus has been ensouled and then dies as a result of the abortion, that is deemed the killing of a soul whose slaying Allah has forbidden without right. In such a case, criminal liability applies: blood money must be paid—its exact amount detailed elsewhere—and, according to some jurists, an expiation is also required, namely the freeing of a believing slave; if that is not possible, then fasting two consecutive months. Some scholars have described this practice as “the lesser infanticide.”

Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm, may Allah have mercy on him, said in his Collected Fatwas (11 | 151): “Seeking to terminate a pregnancy is not permissible unless the fetus is certainly dead; if its death is established, then it is permissible.” End of quote.

Resolution no. 140 of the Council of Senior Scholars dated 20 / 6 / 1407 AH states:
1 – Terminating a pregnancy at any stage is impermissible except for a legitimate Sharīʿah reason, and even then only within very narrow limits.
2 – If the pregnancy is in its first stage—the first forty days—and the motive for ending it during this period is fear of the hardship of raising children, or fear