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Are the spouses sinful if they wait until the seventh month to give birth to a deformed child, knowing that doctors advised abortion in the fifth month and confirmed its death?

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The parents' refusal to abort the deformed fetus is absolutely correct. As long as the fetus is alive, it is not permissible to abort it due to deformities, unless its continued presence poses a certain or highly probable danger to the mother's life.

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