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terminate (stop) before completion
- The woman then aborted spontaneously, and the nun who assisted at this grotesque delivery came away from the experience with blood on her hands.p. 104.2
- The virus is a catastrophe for a pregnant woman: the child is aborted spontaneously and is usually infected with Ebola virus, born with red eyes and a bloody nose.p. 107.8
- The room had been abandoned in the middle of childbirths, where dying mothers had aborted fetuses infected with Ebola.p. 126.4
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