Word Finder - abortion

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The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion (now usually called a miscarriage), or deliberately as an induced abortion.

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An aborted foetus; an abortus.

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A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.

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Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.

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Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

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The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

And I don't believe in abortion either.

She managed to keep her pregnancy secret until an abortion was out of the question and Donnie was born.

Indeed, the tendency in continental Europe is to regard the abortion as a crime against the unborn child, and several codes (notably that of the German Empire) expressly recognize the life of the foetus, while others make the penalty more severe if abortion has been caused in the later stages of pregnancy, or if the woman is married.

In most states not only is the person who causes the abortion punishable, but also any one who supplies any drug or instrument for the purpose.

Our society goes to great lengths to hide the truth about procured abortion.

Lysias maintained, in one of his pleadings quoted by Harpocration, that forced abortion could not be considered homicide, because a child in utero was not an animal, and had no separate existence.

In some cases nuclear division is carried further before spore-formation occurs, and the number of spores is then 16, 32 and 64, &c.; in a few cases the number of spores is less than eight by abortion of some of the eight nuclei.

In England the Anglo-Saxons seem to have regarded abortion only as an ecclesiastical offence.

I keep trying to be sympathetic to her situation but you know how I feel about abortion.

Title The factor V Leiden mutation in Japanese couples with recurrent spontaneous abortion.

The abortion and subsequent mental breakdown illustrated the range of Davidson's acting ability.

In some cases, as in the vine-family Ampelidaceae, this seems to be the ordinary mode of development, but the superposition of the stamens on the sepals in many plants, as in the pink family, Caryophyllaceae, is due to the suppression or abortion of the whorl of petals, and this idea is borne out by the development, in some plants of the order, of the suppressed whorl.

Sometimes the anther has a single cavity, and becomes unilocular, or monothecal, or dimidiate, either by the disappearance of the partition between the two lobes, or by the abortion of one of its lobes, as in Styphelia laeta and Althaea officinalis (hollyhock).

Lord Alton had written to Mr Blair about fetal experimentation and eugenic abortion.

The rules that should govern an ethically acceptable policy on abortion are not difficult to define.

The Act only formally allows abortion for health reasons, albeit in general terms which are routinely flouted.

It was during her marriage to Jeff that Erica made the landmark decision to have an abortion, a first for daytime television.

Any DVD release of All My Children would have to include Erica (Susan Lucci) storylines from her groundbreaking abortion in 1973 to the birth of Miranda to the intertwining storylines dealing with her father Eric Kane.

Entocolax, mouth at free extremity, animal fixed by aboral orifice of pseudopallium, Pacific. Entoconcha, body elongated and tubular, animal fixed by the oral extremity, protandric hermaphrodite, parasitic in testes of Holothurians causing their abortion.

The drug often has a marked aphrodisiac action, producing priapism, or in the female sex the onset of the catamenia or abortion.

They also increase the number of leucocytes in the blood, and the more irritating of them increase the flow of blood to the pelvic organs, and may thus stimulate the uterus, or in large doses cause abortion.

Abortion was out of the question as far as she was concerned, and nothing Cade might say would change her mind.

Impartial advice about the most important decision of all, whether to keep the baby or have an abortion, is often not available.

In the age of child abuse, Aids, abortion and IVF the abduction narratives would voice new concerns.

Those who oppose abortion for fetal abnormality have been allowed to assume the moral high ground in the discussion.

Our ad sales girl Tracey was expected to stump up £ 750 for a backstreet abortion which is worth no more than £ 400.

Many empirical studies have been conducted to investigate the emotional aftermath of abortion, and there is not space here to detail them all.

An abortion must by law, except in a few extreme cases, be carried out before the twenty fourth week of pregnancy.

These include celibacy, delayed marriage, contraception and abortion.

These included coercion in the form of laws passed in 1920 and 1923 banning abortion and contraception.

It is clear that post-coital contraception is, in reality, abortion.

The ethical issues surrounding therapeutic cloning are similar in some ways to the abortion debate; that is when does personhood start?

Abstract Whether pregnant women with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus have an increased risk of spontaneous abortion is controversial.

The idea that abortion for abnormality represents discrimination against the disabled also elides the difference between fetal life, and our respect for persons.

He has consistently opposed human cloning, eugenics, coercive population polices, abortion, destructive experiments on human embryos and euthanasia.

Thus abortion, the " morning after " pill and embryo experimentation remain illegal, but the " x " case exception still stands.

Fashion and Fetishism is concerned with the idea of the corset throughout history yet covers important and controversial issues including feminism and abortion.

The 180,000 women who have abortions in Britain each year know that abortion involves killing a fetus.

In Russia, for example, the high abortion rate has been blamed for the fact that one in five couples are now infertile.

Both euthanasia and abortion are subjects ripe for debate, although unfortunately opposing sides are often intolerant of each other!

The second question is whether abortion always generates bad karma, or in Western terms, is it ever " justified.

Currently abortion is only legal if it is performed by a doctor to save the life or health of the woman.

You know that it is never licit for a Catholic to be party to an alleged right to abortion or euthanasia.

Open and honest conversation about the abortion is the best defense against the anti-choice lobby.

The travel option remains the lynchpin of Irish government policy on abortion.

These methods have enormous potential for providing modern, caring, locally-based nurse-led abortion services for women.

A significant number of students who say they are pro-life think abortion should be legal in some circumstances.

In case (1 ), abortion is perfectly permissible.

Abortion Abortion is a deeply personal issue, based on what feels right for the individual involved.

Some, however, argue for abortion on the grounds that the fetus has not (yet) achieved personhood.