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Answer: The religious ruling was mentioned earlier and if the sperm and egg of the first couple created the baby then it is related to them. Question 81: If a man is not able to create sperm in his body is it permissible for a couple to get sperm from a sperm bank and mix it with his wife’s eggs in a laboratory. After this happens a fetus is created and after childbirth the couple raises the child. Answer: There is no problem in this in and of itself if no forbidden action is committed.

The ruling regarding the child has been mentioned. Question 82: Regarding question 83, is it possible for the sperm not to be mixed with the mother’s egg in a laboratory, rather be placed directly into the mother’s womb in order that the fetus be created inside the mother? Answer: There is no problem with that, in and of itself, and in the case where the fetus would be created inside the woman she would become the mother.

Question 83: Many cases where medicine is used in order to have childbirth, birth is given to multiple children in the fifth or sixth months of pregnancy. These children normally die because they have not developed enough. One of the methods used today to prevent the death of all of these children is to decrease the number of children in a mother’s womb during the first months of pregnancy (between the 50th and 60th day of pregnancy).

This method allows the other children to develop enough in order to live. Is this method permissible according to religion or not? Answer: If all of the children are going to die and there is a way to save some of them it is obligatory to save some of them, but if decreasing the number of fetuses that have life is performed rashly then it seems like there would be a problem in it.

Question 84: If it is permissible for a woman to be impregnated by the sperm of someone other than her husband, who is the father? Is the father the sperm donator? If the father is the sperm donator and the child is a girl, is she mahram to the husband of the mother? If the child is a boy, is he mahram to the mother? Answer: The child is related to the mother. The child is not related to the husband of the mother and it is far-fetched that the child would be related to the sperm donator.

Precaution must be adhered to in this case. Question 85: In the case that life was breathed into the body of a fetus then transferred to another woman’s womb, is the child related to the first woman or the second one?