Thus, for those who set up partners their partners adorned the killing of born children, in order to turn them and to confuse their system for them. Had God willed they would not have done this, so ignore them and what they invent.
Translation endnotes
[6:137] The word "awlad" is a derivative of the verb "WaLaDa" and means "born children." The verse condemns the tradition of infanticide based on sex discrimination. For abortion, see 46:15; 31:14; 22:5; 23:14; 16:58-59 and 17:31