Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In obstetrics, the destruction of a fetus in the uterus; feticide.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.
  • noun An agent responsible for an abortion (the destruction of a fetus); abortifacient.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion
  • noun the act of destroying a fetus

Etymologies

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From abortion +‎ -cide (“killing”).

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Examples

  • However, that memo is about communism and radical Black separatism; it points out that communists committed most of the "officially designated" terrorist acts in the U.S. in the 1980s, and it does not characterize, say, pro-aborticide groups, as potential terrorists.

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  • However, that memo is about communism and radical Black separatism; it points out that communists committed most of the "officially designated" terrorist acts in the U.S. in the 1980s, and it does not characterize, say, pro-aborticide groups, as potential terrorists.

    And Now, For My Next Act of Terror... 2009

  • The irony of ‘aborticide’ does make it hard not to point and laugh.

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  • She accustomed afterlife threats from aborticide rights activists and was accustomed badge protection. 16 Parliament voted by 187 to 108 to adios the bill. 17

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  • Dorries entered nursing in 1975 as a abecedarian at Warrington Accepted Hospital. 7 From 1978 to 1981, she practised as a nurse in both Warrington and Liverpool. 8 She claims to accept witnessed two adulterated terminations, an acquaintance that afflicted her attack to lower the foetal aborticide age. 6

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  • Attempting to lower aborticide time absolute in 2006

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  • About times we accession that by description the arrangement can in some cases could could could could cause complete arrangement aborticide or acutely abridge the accusation adaptation of the battery.

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  • Talking to Mark Darcy of Radio 4's Westminster Hour about aborticide in 2006

    Labour of Love 2010

  • On 31 October 2006, Dorries alien a Private Member's Bill, which would accept bargain the time absolute for aborticide from 24 to 21 weeks, accommodate a 'cooling-off' aeon for women adulatory to accept an abortion, and would ensure, afterward the cessation of the cooling off period, accelerated admission to abortion.

    Labour of Love 2010

  • Talking to Mark Darcy of Radio 4's Westminster Hour about aborticide in 2006

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