English word senses marked with topical category "Abortion": list

English word senses marked with topical category "Abortion"

Total 100 word senses

D and C (Noun) Abbreviation of dilation and curettage.

IDX (Noun) Initialism of intact dilation and extraction.

IVG (Noun) An inducted abortion (in the context of a country like France).

MFPR (Noun) Abbreviation of multifetal pregnancy reduction. The abortion of one or more fetuses in a multifetal pregnancy.

PBA (Noun) Abbreviation of partial-birth abortion.

RU-486 (Proper name) Synonym of mifepristone.

abolitionism (Noun) Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.; Support for the abolition (banning) of sex work.

abort (Noun) The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.

abort (Noun) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

abort (Verb) To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

abort (Verb) To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

abortation (Noun) Misconstruction of abortion.

abortee (Noun) That which was aborted.

abortee (Noun) A pregnant woman who has an abortion.

aborter (Noun) One who or that which aborts.; One who has an abortion.

aborter (Noun) One who performs an abortion.

abortifacient (Adjective) Producing miscarriage.

abortifactive (Adjective) Inducing abortion or miscarriage, abortifacient.

abortion (Noun) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.; An induced abortion.

abortion clinic (Noun) A clinic where abortions are performed.

abortion pill (Noun) A drug, such as mifepristone (Mifegyne), used to terminate a pregnancy in its earliest stage.

abortion tour (Noun) An instance of abortion tourism; a trip made for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.

abortion tourism (Noun) Travel for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.

abortion tourist (Noun) Someone who travels for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.

abortional (Adjective) Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive.

abortionism (Noun) The advocacy or practice of abortion.

abortionist (Noun) A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly.

abortionist (Noun) A person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion.

abortive (Adjective) Causing abortion; abortifacient.

abortogenic (Adjective) Causing abortion; abortifacient.

abortuary (Noun) A place where abortions are performed.

abortus (Noun) An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy.

angel maker (Noun) An illicit abortionist.

anti-abortion (Adjective) Alternative spelling of antiabortion

anti-abortionism (Noun) An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion.

anti-choice (Adjective) Not pro-choice; opposed to the individual's choice, especially of abortion or euthanasia.

anti-choicer (Noun) One who opposes pro-choice views.

antiabortion (Adjective) Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.

antiabortionist (Noun) One who is opposed to the practice of abortion, or to it being legal.

baby-killer (Noun) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see baby, killer.; An abortionist (all senses).

bubble zone (Noun) A government-mandated perimeter around a facility providing abortions, preventing protesters from getting too close.

chemical abortion (Noun) A medical, rather than surgical, abortion induced by a drug.

consistent life ethic (Noun) A cultural, political, and religious right to life belief opposed to abortion, capital punishment, economic injustice, euthanasia or assisted suicide, and war.

culture of death (Noun) In moral theology, the concept that human life can be a means to some other end and not solely an end itself.

culture of death (Noun) In contemporary political and philosophical discourse, a culture asserted to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life", such as cultures that support contraception and abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, human cloning, self-absorption, apathy or poverty.

culture of death (Noun) A society that reveres suicide bombers as martyrs.

dilation and curettage (Noun) A surgical procedure in which the cervix is dilated and the lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet.

ecbolic (Adjective) Producing abortion of a fetus or accelerating childbirth, oxytocic.

ecbolic (Noun) An agent that produces abortion of a fetus or hastens delivery of the same.

evictionism (Noun) A libertarian position on abortion based on property rights, according to which a woman is entitled to eject a baby from her body as a trespasser or a parasite.

feticide (Noun) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.

feticide (Noun) One who kills a fetus.

fetucide (Noun) Alternative spelling of feticide.

fetus fetishist (Noun) One who supports fetal rights; an antiabortionist.

forced-birther (Noun) One who desires that abortion be illegal, and thus that pregnant women be required to carry to term and give birth in all or most cases; a pro-lifer.

fœticide (Noun) Archaic form of foeticide.

heartbeat bill (Noun) A form of abortion restriction legislation which makes abortion illegal as soon as the fetal heartbeat can be detected.

heartbeat law (Noun) A law that forbids abortions after the fetal heartbeat can be detected, typically around six weeks.

incomplete abortion (Noun) An abortion or miscarriage that does not fully remove all product traces of the fetus.

induced abortion (Noun) A surgical or medicinal procedure that terminates a pregnancy by removing the fetus; a therapeutic abortion. It is a non-contraceptive form of birth control.

intact dilation and extraction (Noun) A late-term surgical abortion procedure, involving (in order) dilation of the cervix, removal of the fetus from the uterus to the shoulders, and emptying of the fetal cranium to allow for easier passage of the head through the cervix and vagina.

keep the baby (Verb) To choose not to have an abortion.

mife (Noun) Clipping of mifepristone.

mifepristone (Noun) A steroid medication that inhibits the action of progesterone, typically given orally in combination with misoprostol in early pregnancy to induce abortion.

miniabortion (Noun) Synonym of minisuction

minisuction (Noun) A form of abortion in which the fetus or embryo, placenta, and membranes are removed by suction using a manual syringe.

misbirth (Noun) An abortion.

miso (Noun) Clipping of misoprostol.

misoprostol (Noun) A drug used for various purposes including the prevention of drug-induced gastric ulcers and the inducement of abortions, having the chemical formula C₂₂H₃₈O₅.

mooncalf (Noun) An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception.

nontherapeutic abortion (Noun) An abortion not required for medical reasons.

partial-birth abortion (Noun) Intact dilation and extraction.

pro-abort (Adjective) Pro-choice.

pro-abortionism (Noun) An ideology or policy of support for the practice and/or legalization of abortion.

pro-abortionist (Noun) One who supports the practice or legality of abortion.

pro-choice (Adjective) Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.

pro-choicer (Noun) A person with pro-choice views, or who advocates such policies.

pro-deather (Noun) A person who is supportive of the practice or legality of abortion or who is opposed to “pro-life” causes.

pro-life (Adjective) Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.; Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.

pro-lifeism (Noun) An ideology or policy of opposition to abortion.

pro-lifer (Noun) A person with pro-life views, or who advocates such policies

proabortion (Adjective) Supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion.

prodeath (Adjective) pro-choice

products of conception (Noun) The human fetus, placenta and other such by-products of a miscarriage or abortion.

right to choose (Noun) The moral or legal entitlement of a pregnant woman to make the full and final decision either to give birth to her child or to abort the fetus.

right to life (Noun) The moral or legal entitlement of an unborn child to be born, and not have its birth prevented through an abortion or other medical procedure.

right-to-lifer (Noun) One who espouses a position of support for fetuses' right to life; a pro-lifer; one who opposed abortion.

salt out (Verb) To abort (a fetus) by injecting saline solution into the uterus.

scrape (Noun) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

spontaneous abortion (Noun) A miscarriage.

suction curettage (Noun) A common method of abortion where the products of conception are removed by a vacuum arrangement.

teleabortion (Noun) The practice of using teleconsultation to assist a patient in aborting a pregnancy.

therapeutic abortion (Noun) An abortion indicated by need for the health of the mother or due to the inviable nature of the fetus.

unabort (Verb) To undo an abortion (in various senses).

unborn (Noun) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.

vacuum aspiration (Noun) A method of inducing abortion, during the first trimester of pregnancy, in which the embryo and placenta are drawn off through a narrow tube.

violinist argument (Proper name) An argument in favour of a right to abortion that appeals to a thought experiment in which a person with a rare blood type is kidnapped and plugged into a famous unconscious violinist with a fatal kidney ailment; if the violinist is unplugged, he will die, but if he stays plugged into the kidnappee for nine months, he will recover from his ailment. The argument assumes that in this hypothetical sc…

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