Abortion Of A Disabled Foetus After 120 Days Of Conception
I would, respectfully, disagree with Ghamidi sahab’s view point the hadith is mentioning a spiritual process and not a physical transformation into human from animal. It is human from day 1 biologically. The context of the hadith is not related to, as far as i know, sanctity of human life (plz correct me if i understood wrong) child is human from the beginning, a cow’s calf is a cow at the time of conception and similarly a human child is a human since conception because it is conceived from human DNA and not animal DNA. once born it is a human and treated as such and its life could not be taken by anyone including parents when inside the womb it is part of mothers body and she has the right to decide to abort if she wishes too. We can reprimand on moral grounds if she does it to get away from responsibilities or out of fear of poverty or disfigurement of her body etc. Allah said that He doesn’t harm anyone beyond his/her affordability but if parents bring forth a such a child knowingly then they r subjecting him to more suffering and it is even worse that we think it is Allah’s will to make him suffer. This is from Allah’s mercy that He has allowed us to tell before birth about such defects and also provide us means to avoid life of suffering for our children. This is neither euthanasia ( the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease or in an irreversible coma) or eugenics. Lastly, if u want religious opinion than Ghamidi sahab’s is absolutely correct in the religion sense. To me, this is not a religious but a human issue .