[ US /əˈbɔɹʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɐbˈɔːʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. failure of a plan
  2. termination of pregnancy
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How To Use abortion In A Sentence

  • If the mother is allowed to refuse a kidney donation that would keep her child alive once the child is born, why should she be preluded from having an abortion if she wants one in order to save one of her kidneys? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Should a Parent Be Required To Donate a Kidney to a Child Who Needs a Life-Saving Transplant?”
  • Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex.
  • What is called effluxion is a destruction of the embryo within the first week, while abortion occurs up to the fortieth day; and the greater number of such embryos as perish do so within the space of these forty days. The History of Animals
  • This bill targets the very same services that are working to reduce abortion and unplanned pregnancy rates.
  • Risky - and often fatal - backstreet abortions continue to be the only alternative for some.
  • When they start in on showing you a parade of verses so vague that they could mean anything, point out that the word "abortion" does not occur anywhere in that verse and ask them to show you something clearer, a specific reference to abortion or a single use of the word anyplace in the book. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Threatened abortion The term threatened abortion is used  when a pregnancy is complicated by vaginal bleeding before the 20th week. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • I was addressing the issue of whether his deathbed activities that I read about could meaningfully be described as signs of repentance for his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
  • A poll of 700 female registered voters found that 56% favor full abortion rights.
  • All dilemmas can be resolved, say the anti-abortion lobby, if the starting point is the foetus rather than the woman.
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