abortions
Terminated pregnancy procedures
Abortions is the plural of abortion, the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus can survive outside the womb.
The word covers both deliberate procedures and spontaneous losses (miscarriages).
Abortion is among the most politically charged terms in American English, with pro-choice and pro-life camps fighting over its legal status for decades.
Against elective pregnancy termination
- pro-choiceSupporting legal abortion access
- polarizingCausing sharp division
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- moralityRight and wrong principles
activism · politics · protest · demonstrations · lobbying · stigma · religious · secular
Related to producing offspring
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- bodilyOf the physical form
- privacyFreedom from observation
- feminismAdvocacy for sex equality
advocacy · pro-choice · Casey · constitutional · legal · access · restrictions · bans
Outpatient treatment facility
- gynecologistFemale reproductive medicine physician
- ultrasoundInaudible high-frequency waves
- trimesterThirteen-week span
- fetusGestating offspring
mifepristone · dilation · curettage · aspiration · gestation · embryo · anesthesia · sedation
Act of ending something
- electiveChosen, not mandated
- therapeuticPromoting healing or wellness
- inducedBrought about deliberately
- spontaneousArising without external cause
missed · incomplete · selective · late-term · medical · surgical · vacuum · chemical
pro-life
Against elective pregnancy termination
- pro-choiceSupporting legal abortion access
- polarizingCausing sharp division
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
morality · activism · politics · protest · demonstrations · lobbying · stigma · religious · secular · conservative
reproductive
Related to producing offspring
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- bodilyOf the physical form
- privacyFreedom from observation
feminism · advocacy · pro-choice · Casey · constitutional · legal · access · restrictions · bans · criminalization
clinic
Outpatient treatment facility
- gynecologistFemale reproductive medicine physician
- ultrasoundInaudible high-frequency waves
- trimesterThirteen-week span
fetus · mifepristone · dilation · curettage · aspiration · gestation · embryo · anesthesia · sedation · hemorrhage
termination
Act of ending something
- electiveChosen, not mandated
- therapeuticPromoting healing or wellness
- inducedBrought about deliberately
spontaneous · missed · incomplete · selective · late-term · medical · surgical · vacuum · chemical
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
abortionslive births
Offspring emerging viable
births · deliveries · childbirths · carrying to term · natural births
abortionsconceptions
Ideas or understandings formed
procreations · blessings · births · creations · life-giving
abortionscompletions
Acts of finishing
fulfillments · successes · accomplishments · continuations · follow-throughs
- abortion debateConflict over ending pregnancies
- abortion rightsFreedom to terminate pregnancy
- abortion clinicFacility providing pregnancy termination
- abortion lawsStatutes regulating pregnancy termination
- abortion banLaw forbidding pregnancy termination
- abortion pillsDrugs terminating early pregnancy
abortion, abortionist, antiabortion, abortionists, postabortion