of being unable to bear the costs of their living and education, or anxiety about their future, or contentment with the number of children the couple already have, then such a termination is not permitted.
3 – It is impermissible to abort the pregnancy once it has become an ʿalaqa or a muḍgha—that is, a clot or a morsel of flesh—unless a reliable medical committee concludes that continuing the pregnancy endangers the mother’s well-being, to the extent that her death is feared. In that case, ending the pregnancy is allowed, but only after every possible means of averting that danger has been exhausted.
4 – After the third developmental stage—once the pregnancy has completed four months—it is unlawful to terminate it unless a group of trustworthy specialist physicians determine that keeping the fetus in the womb will result in the mother’s death, and this only after all measures to save the fetus’s life have been tried. Permission for termination under these conditions is granted solely to ward off the greater of the two harms and secure the greater of the two benefits.

In adopting these rulings, the Council urges God-consciousness and careful deliberation in this matter. Allah is the One who grants success. May Allah bless our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and his Companions. End of quote.

Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn states in his Treatise on Women’s Natural Blood: “If the purpose of aborting the fetus is to destroy it, then, should this occur after the soul has been breathed into it, it is unquestionably unlawful, for it amounts to killing a life without right.”