Ruling on aborting a malformed fetus in fiqh and medicine

Abstract

Todayit has become possible to detect fetal abnormalities, and treatsome of them in the early stages of pregnancy, but some of theseabnormalities are serious and cannot -at least now- betreated. This research came entitled: The ruling on abortion of a distortedfetus in jurisprudence and medicine, to show the jurisprudential ruling on abortion in general, and to abort a deformed fetus in particular.