Doctors demanding a fatwa authorizing the abortion of “Thalassemia embryos”

Doctors in the state called on Islamic religious scholars to obtain a fatwa that allows abortion of embryos infected with Thalassemia, which is less than 10 weeks old, similar to other Islamic countries that issued fatwas that allow abortion of these embryos if symptoms of snowy.

Citizen Sheikha Rashid (56 years old) recounts her suffering with Thalassemia, which led to the death of two of her daughters, stressing that she was hoping that these tests and analyzes would be available 35 years ago to avoid her children this disease.

“My cousin, we have a pregnant woman who is pregnant with the heritage of Thalassemia, and for this reason some of my children were injured in this disease, and I lost two of my daughters because of this disease,” Sheikha says. The blood transfusion operations, pointing out that she was doing this every three weeks in the hospital, and her two daughters were stubborn, and they often refused to stab the needle in the throat every day in order to enter the medicine, and as a result, both of them failed at school, and they were expelled from them at the sixth level, as They suffered from diabetes and heart, and died of angina.

Rashid added that her older daughter died at the age of 18, while the younger is at the age of 16 because of the same disease. She stated that according to doctors, the Thalassemia patient does not die due to the disease itself, but rather because of other severe complications resulting from the disease and blood transfusions in the first place. She emphasized that if she was able to return again to that time and have an opportunity for tests, she would have performed a miscarriage so that she would not have a child with snow, and coexist while suffering and suffering in front of her eyes.

For his part, one of the doctors in Dubai called for not to be named, Islamic religious scholars, to find a religious exit for this problem through dialogue with doctors and families of children with snowmia, and visiting these children in hospitals and standing on their daily suffering before they issued any fatwa on abortion.

He said, “I have been treating children with oceania for more than two decades. A blood transfusion lasts for more than five hours, and it is not easy for the medical staff and the parents of the child. ”

This doctor pointed to the severe pain that the child measured from tingling needles during blood transfusion every three weeks, as he is also injured daily for the doses of other Thalassemia medicine at home, stressing that this is not easy to work on the child, pointing out that these children are deprived of Enjoying normal life and emergence like their healthy peers, such a situation causes major problems in their lives.

He pointed out that, according to the medical references, the Thalassemia child does not live more than 15 years, and many of them die before this age if they do not have the necessary health care at home, and they are injured as a result of other diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.

“There are two types of Thalassemia, the first (beta), and the child with this type of disease is exposed to death in his mother’s belly or during Childbirth, or in very early stages of age, while the second type of disease (Alfa) can live for a advanced stage only of age with the need for continuous blood transfusions. ”

She emphasized that her professional constants prevent abortion operations, pointing to the need to use the juristic opinion when the father is unable to bear the financial costs of the injured child.

“The mother suffers with great sadness and pain when she knows that her fetus is infected with snowmia,” said a professor at a hospital in the obstetrician in Abu Dhabi, who declined to be named. Some of them die at a few months old, and some live a few years and the mother’s heart is attached to it and then dies, calling on religious scholars to leave the process of abortion of fetuses if it is proven that she was afflicted with snowmia at the age of 10 weeks, such as Islamic countries that authorized these operations. He pointed out that many marriages failed because of this disease, saying that “in many cases the husband accuses his wife of being the cause of the child’s injury to this disease, and in some cases the father leaves his child and his mother to face their fate alone, and in some cases the mother devotes her life to child care.” He pointed out that there are some mothers and fathers after the separation, they want to associate with another life companion, in which case the child loses the care of his parents and many of them die because he is not receiving the appropriate treatment.

The chief muftis in Dubai, the supervisor of electronic fatwas at the website of the Islamic Affairs Department, Dr. Ali Mashael, says that Islamic religious scholars have many fatwas related to abortion of embryos infected with Thalassemia, pointing out that some of them allow such abortion, but he does not acknowledge the abortion of those embryos if She was more than 120 days old, while others of Muslim scholars say they see that these fetuses are not aborted even if they are less than 120 days.

Mashael stated that it was proven in several cases of the error of medical predictions, pointing out that in some cases that medical tests say that the fetus suffers from major medical problems, children are born in good health, and the matter returns first and foremost to God’s will.

While the scholar Sheikh Ahmed Al -Kubaisi sees that it is not permissible to abort the fetus even if it is proven that he has the disease of Thalassemia, continuing, “I think that it is not permissible to abort the embryos of Thalassimia, although I know that this would cause problems for the child and his family, and in general all This is with the will of God, even if the doctor emphasizes that the child does not live more than 15 years, this is not a fixed fact, because many of these children lived more than that, and many of them married and formed a family for himself. Al -Kubaisi added that the only case in which the child is aborted if it is proven that he has very large deformities, setting, for example, that “the women of Fallujah in Iraq gave birth to children with great distortions, so that the doctors did not know whether this newborn is a human being or not, and in many of These cases these children come to exist in various forms, and in this case I only see it as permissible to abort the embryos, and I also believe that women in such a country should not bear, and they are forbidden to carry. ”