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: --
It is extremely difficult to bring down that requirement in any satisfactory way without aborting recovery at the same time.
Clearly, rejection of an embryo earlier than 14 days is preferable to aborting a foetus much later on.
First, there are the single women, who never admit that they are aborting or, indeed, that they have ever been pregnant.
I am so glad that we never considered aborting him in the womb.
Early detection and targeted control interventions have already proved their value in the region through aborting potential epidemics.
The third situation which is unsatisfactory is where doctors disagree about aborting a woman, or where they refuse to abort a woman on medical grounds.
I talked with farmers whose ewes were aborting their lambs due to drinking the infected water.
How many doctors have been prosecuted for aborting children who were capable of being born alive?