Both Uses of
abortion
in
Atlas Shrugged
- It was to raise everybody's standard of living and provide a roast of pork every Sunday for every man, woman, child and abortion in the People's State of Mexico.†
Chpt 1.5 *abortion = intentionally ending a pregnancy
- There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, nonproperty, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
intentional ending of pregnancy with medical assistance by removing the fetus or embryo from the body before it is able to survive
A spontaneous abortion (more commonly called a miscarriage) is an abortion that happens without medical assistance or intent