abortiona‧bor‧tion /əˈbɔːʃən $ əˈbɔːr-/ ●○○ noun 
She decided to have an abortion. anti-abortion campaigners
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- Abortion has become a highly political issue.
- But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action.
- Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.
- Operation Rescue was an organization notorious for its confrontational tactics and its implacable opposition to abortion under all circumstances.
- They do not seek the experience of abortion, they would far rather not have become pregnant in the first place.
- To climb back into the presidential race, he must get abortion off the agenda.
- Whatever you may think about the morality of abortion, these are the most deplorable scare tactics.
- Yet even so, the United States still leads most industrialized countries in teenage pregnancies, abortions and childbearing.
Longman Language Activatorwhen a baby is not born alive
· "Am I going to lose the baby?'' she asked the doctor.· Patricia lost the baby after six months.
if a woman has a miscarriage the baby comes out of her body far too early for it to be able to live: · She was pregnant during her first marriage, but had a miscarriage.
a baby that is stillborn is born dead but fully developed: · Sadly, the baby was stillborn.· Libby had still not recovered from the shock of giving birth to a stillborn child.
if a baby is born dead , it is not alive when it is born: · The doctor told them that there was a danger their baby would be born dead or brain damaged.
a medical operation to deliberately end a pregnancy so that the baby is not born alive: · The Catholic Church remains strongly opposed to abortion.have an abortion: · One of my friends got pregnant when she was fifteen and had an abortion.backstreet abortion (=a secret illegal abortion by someone who is not trained): · Backstreet abortions left many women unable to have children later.
formal to perform the operation that prevents a baby from being born alive, often because the mother's life is in danger - used especially by doctors: · Doctors may terminate a pregnancy when the life of the mother is at risk.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She decided to have an abortion.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
[countable, uncountable] a medical operation to end a pregnancy so that the baby is not born alive SYN termination: She decided to have an abortion.· Some critics echo the radical anti-abortion lobby in comparing stem cell research to the Holocaust.· The new alliance will attempt to win the moral high ground from anti-abortion and antivivisection groups, he says.· The anti-abortion groups' victory will probably only be temporary, however.· The basic anti-abortion argument boils down to a moral question.· Therapeutic cloning has been attacked by anti-abortion campaigners.
· The Supreme Court is expected to weaken further the nationwide constitutional protection for abortion early next year.· Pete Wilson, has vowed to remove language in the party platform that calls for a constitutional ban on abortions.· Anti-abortionists have launched a vigorous campaign to reinforce the constitutional ban on abortion.· He supports parental notification and opposes government funding, but does not advocate a constitutional amendment banning abortion.· The convention could include a battle over whether to retain the platform plank calling for a constitutional ban on abortion.· Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.· Robert Dornan and Patrick Buchanan -- to pledge to continue to include in the Republican platform a constitutional ban on abortions.· Last month the senator complicated their task by reiterating his support for some exceptions to a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
· Thousands turn to illegal abortion services, thousands more give birth to children they neither wanted nor can afford.· For $ 100, Hicks performed illegal abortions.· None of the women who were subsequently interviewed mentioned illegal abortion and the final report ignores the topic.· I, too, had had an illegal abortion.· The other said that Courtney carried out an illegal abortion at her home.· Furthermore, there were many illegal abortions before the Act.· Another alleged he carried out an illegal abortion at her home.· It is an important protection against behaving in unprofessional ways like procuring an illegal abortion or killing a handicapped baby.
· Penalties for induced abortions are fierce in theory but ineffective in practice.· Thus the data relate to spontaneous miscarriages as well as to induced abortions.· Statistics do not distinguish between induced and spontaneous abortions.· However, these data combine spontaneous and induced abortions and thus reflect different causal phenomena.· Future fertility was not related to induced abortion.
· Thirty-six percent ended in legal abortion - less than in 1977.· Unable to scrape together the money for a safe, legal abortion, she turned to an illegal abortionist.· This is why access to safe, reliable, legal abortion is what most women want.· Clinton: Favors legal abortion, with few restrictions.· They also demanded that President Reagan announce an end to legal abortion in the United States.· Legal abortion Legal abortion in Britain since 1967 came too late to explain the beginning of fertility decline.· In 116 stories, Republicans who supported legal abortion were described as moderates.
· Clinton consistently supported women's right to abortion at a time when Bush adopted an anti-abortion stance.· Wade decision granted women the right to have abortions.· These figures are heroes to conservatives for their espousal of policies that are meat and drink to the right, especially abortion.
· A statement said there was a spontaneous abortion and the life support machine had now been turned off.· Statistics do not distinguish between induced and spontaneous abortions.· However, these data combine spontaneous and induced abortions and thus reflect different causal phenomena.· As a consequence, abnormally high rates of spontaneous abortions among women coffee-harvesters have been recorded.· But how often is the mule's gestation cut short by spontaneous abortion?
NOUN· The growth of non-profit-making abortion clinics since the act has meant that abortion is widely available.· The ruling was not a total defeat for the abortion clinics.· Under the terms of the legislation an abortion clinic was also required to inform a patient about the possible alternatives to abortion.· Keeping abortion clinics open was one such issue.· In the coming abortion clinic battles, these would prove invaluable to her and to me.· The court in 1994 upheld some limits on how close protesters can get to women entering abortion clinics to terminate pregnancies.· It was not widely known that there was a abortion clinic in the neighborhood.· Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics.
· Janet Hadley looks at both sides of the abortion debate.· The highly publicized abortion debate overshadowed the rest of the platform that calls for a smorgasbord of constitutional amendments.· The abortion debate provided an unexpected twist Thursday.· I am convinced it is this freedom that is at the heart of the abortion debate.
· In the United States a most dramatic contemporary example of this process is the abortion issue.· These developments took place against a background of growing activism on the abortion issue in the country at large.· The abortion issue also seems to have been canceled for lack of burning interest.· Controversy, too, continues to surround the abortion issue.· But the abortion issue was not a big factor in either Virginia or New Jersey.· The ballot gives further notice to conservative Republicans how dangerous the abortion issue has become for them.· Only 5 percent named the abortion issue.
· When most criminal abortion laws were first enacted, the procedure was a hazardous one for the woman.· Despite some public opinion polls and Supreme Court decisions to the contrary, voters have repeatedly rejected liberalization of abortion laws.· Her case ended up in the Supreme Court which overturned restrictive abortion laws in 46 states.
· Buchanan, however, said she was pleased by the selection of abortion opponent Rep.· Buchanan made a special appeal to abortion opponents, a group of voters whose support he generally shares with Gramm and Keyes.· Still, Buchanan appeals to abortion opponents, gun rights advocates and religious conservatives.· Throughout the 1992 election campaign, it became quite clear just how vehemently abortion opponents feared the coming of a pro-choice president.· Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.· The draft retains the abortion rights position of the 1992 platform, but adds language suggested by abortion opponent Rep.· All calls for accommodation masked the gulf that divides abortion opponents and supporters.
· The bill would have banned an abortion procedure known to health professionals as intact dilation and extraction.
VERB· The Penal Code of 1977 only allows abortions on health grounds or because of pregnancies as a result of rape.· At least if you had no reason to think either would in fact allow more abortions?
· He supports parental notification and opposes government funding, but does not advocate a constitutional amendment banning abortion.· The Senate gave President Clinton a victory Thursday when lawmakers sustained his veto of a bill banning certain late-term abortions.· The bill would have banned an abortion procedure known to health professionals as intact dilation and extraction.· Last month the senator complicated their task by reiterating his support for some exceptions to a constitutional amendment banning abortion.· Clinton on April 10 vetoed a bill that would have banned so-called partial birth abortions.· Clinton would support language banning the abortion technique as an elective procedure, another White House aide said.
· But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy.· Many voters believed abortion rights were threatened.
· A woman who is granted an abortion does not get to choose between abortions.· He contends that economic prosperity has given the voters the opportunity to choose on issues like abortion and the environment.· Prior to 1980 Bush had supported the right of women to choose to have an abortion.
· He introduced a bill to legalize abortion two years before Roe v. Wade.· Short of legalizing abortion, lives could be saved if doctors were better trained to deal with septic or incomplete abortions.· Y., referring to the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.· Wade legalized abortion around the nation.
· Brook will also make all the necessary arrangements for its young clients to obtain abortions.· The spousal notification requirement is thus likely to prevent a significant number of women from obtaining an abortion.
· Alan Keyes, an eloquent black talk-show host who fervently opposes abortion, has never officially abandoned the race.· Dole and Kemp both oppose abortion, and the new Republican platform retains a strong anti-abortion plank.· Buchanan opposes abortion, affirmative action, immigration and imports.· Mack, a solid conservative who opposes abortion, could help Dole in electoral vote-rich Florida.· I am opposed to abortion on demand.· He is vehemently opposed to abortion, gay rights and many aspirations of the Third World.
· Conservatives insist that the new platform retain the 1992 abortion plank calling for a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion.· He would outlaw abortion and end gun control.· By 1980 the Republican Party platform had become antiabortion; and a president who pledged to outlaw abortion altogether had been elected.· The Louisiana legislature was debating a bill to outlaw virtually all abortions.
· However, it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances.· So furious had he been that he had wanted to perform an abortion himself, immediately.· The code threatened doctors with suspension if they performed abortions unless the pregnancy involved rape or threat to the woman's life.· The change affected clinics that primarily perform abortions as well as family doctors who may do the procedure along with unrelated services.· For $ 100, Hicks performed illegal abortions.· The change also affects medical offices that perform abortions in addition to unrelated services.
· Mr Coleman promised he would not push for legislation which would severely restrict abortion in Virginia.· By the turn of the century virtually every State had a law prohibiting or restricting abortion on its books.· He has stated that, as Governor of New Jersey, he would not push for legislation to restrict abortion drastically.
· They do not seek the experience of abortion, they would far rather not have become pregnant in the first place.· One influential local bishop warned that women who sought abortion would be excommunicated.
· Legislators who supported the right to abortion immediately took steps to negate the effects of the Rust v. Sullivan ruling.· In 116 stories, Republicans who supported legal abortion were described as moderates.· It was a way of reaching out to social and religious conservatives who suspect him of supporting abortion rights.· Norcross has been hampered because he supports abortion rights.· Clinton would support language banning the abortion technique as an elective procedure, another White House aide said.· While Bulger has been against, Birmingham supports abortion rights.
She decided to have an abortion. anti-abortion campaigners