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abortion
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abortion as in:  have an abortion

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  • If none of this had happened, Lauren would have probably gotten an abortion, and I would have never known about it.  (source)
    abortion = intentional ending of pregnancy
  • On one side, people were murdering abortion doctors to protect the right to life, while on the other side people were getting pregnant just to sell their fetal tissue.  (source)
    abortion = intentionally ending pregnancies
  • Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarean sections, too, and your children who hate your guts!  (source)
    abortions = intentional ending of pregnancies
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  • If a girl has had an abortion, for instance, that would rule her out.†  (source)
    abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
  • They rent beach houses in Cancun during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before the prom.†  (source)
    abortions = ending of pregnancies
  • But in the 1980s American antiabortion activists began to target UNFPA.†  (source)
    antiabortion = opposed to ending pregnancies by abortion
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiabortion means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • In his junior year, he'd gotten a town girl pregnant, and his mother—only recently divorced from his father—had so skillfully and swiftly arranged for the girl's abortion that not even Owen and I knew who the girl was; Larry Lish had spoiled a lot of girls' good times.†  (source)
    abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
  • As with most bad poets, I was unaware of this fact, secure in my arrogance that the very act of creating gave some worth to the worthless abortions I was spawning.†  (source)
    abortions = ending of pregnancies
  • Will you be needing an abortion?†  (source)
    abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
  • We shouldn't have to pay for stuff we hate, and I don't want to pay for a health care program that endorses legalized abortions.†  (source)
    abortions = ending of pregnancies
  • An abortion is the only way to save your life.†  (source)
    abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
  • We both knew her to be violently opposed to abortions, and she would very likely order me to quit school.†  (source)
    abortions = ending of pregnancies
  • He knew the student who had originally drafted this abortion they called SAPS.†  (source)
    abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
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