abortifacient

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But instead I suffered through that Vaseline ad with the female vocalist clicking her tongue like an experimental psychiatry enthusiast and that absolute abortifacient which is the soundtrack to the Ford Kuga ad.

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  1. adjective Causing abortion.
  2. noun A substance or device used to induce abortion.

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  • It is not, however, an abortifacient - a fact that should have kept it out of the abortion controversy. —  FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles
  • This contraception sometimes functions as an abortifacient, so the Catholic hospitals declined to provide the medicine. —  America Magazine - America Connects
  • I've seen some claims that she supports it as long as it's not abortifacient, others that she opposes it even for married couples! thanks for taking the time to leave a comment in the future for us to study. —  Yes To Democracy
  • I see no reason to consider them abortifacient, especially given that I know of people who conceived while using birth control pills resulting in the births of healthy babies. —  National Catholic Reporter
  • Daily Free Press The [abortifacient] contraceptive pill Plan B will be available over the counter to 17-year-olds by the end ... —  ProLifeBlogs
 

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  1. from Latin abortus (see abort, n.) + facien(t-)s, present participle of facere, make.
 

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/əbɔrtɪˈfeɪʃɪənt/
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