After several days the victim aborted the foetus and died.

The Committee is deeply concerned about the high rate of abortion of the girl foetus.

At the time the medical establishment believed the placenta would protect the foetus from toxins in the bloodstream, which is indeed the case with most chemicals.

In Kenya, Botswana and Zambia, women have reported being forced by their husbands to return drugs given to them to fight HIV, based on unfounded fear that the drugs could harm the foetus.

Surrogate motherhood or transfer of a foreign ovum, or an embryo or foetus created from it to a woman whose intention to give away the child after birth is known is punishable by a pecuniary punishment.

Then We made the sperm into a clot of congealed blood then of that clot We made a ( foetus ) lump then we made out of that lump bones and clothed the bones with flesh then we developed out of it another creature . So blessed be Allah , the best to create !

And they say What is in the bellies of such and such cattle ( milk or foetus ) is for our males alone , and forbidden to our females ( girls and women ) , but if it is born dead , then all have shares therein . He will punish them for their attribution ( of such false orders to Allah ) .

(e) The review of applications for the withdrawal, termination, interruption or restoration of guardianship the naming and designation of testamentary executors the processing of applications for placement under guardianship and for the issuance of missing person's declarations and all other matters relating to legal incapacity, diminished legal capacity, missing persons, and the foetus