Is it permissible to go for abortion after 3 months pregnancy, although there is no health problems to the mother but because of her age of 40-years and with grown up children she fills very shy and insists on abortion?

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Abortion is forbidden unless there is dire necessity as mentioned in our previous Fatwa: 87467.

Feeling embarrassment due to her grown up children is not an acceptable excuse for aborting a fetus and it is a major great sin.

Allaah know best.