0 present participle of abort
1 to cause something to stop or fail before it begins or before it is complete:
2 to stop the development of a baby that has not been born, usually by having a medical operation:
This change in the law would make abortion illegal except for strictly defined medical reasons.
We're conducting a poll to find out what people think about abortion.
Some women choose to have an abortion rather than care for a severely disabled child.
Her husband longed for children, and she had an abortion without telling him.
Many women die or become infertile as a result of unsafe abortions.
Aborting it would arguably be permissible even if the fetus were to come within the scope of the constraint against harmful using.
Antibodies to trophoblast in normal pregnant and secondary aborting women.
Mahowald may be correct in claiming that many of the reasons prospective parents give for aborting based on disability are not discriminatory.