Used in a Sentence

abortions

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for abortions.

Editorial note

Personally if I had to choose between banning abortions or a government that completely ignores the 4th amendment I'd have to choose to ban abortions.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

An induced abortion.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of abortions gathered in one view.

noun

An induced abortion.

noun

The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

noun

(medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for abortions.

noun

An induced abortion.

noun

The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

noun

(medicine) The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.

noun

(now uncommon in general use) A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.

Example sentences

1

Personally if I had to choose between banning abortions or a government that completely ignores the 4th amendment I'd have to choose to ban abortions.

2

High-availability abortions and contraceptives given out in schools are just examples of governments giving people what they want.

3

Because no one can argue with that, even though 99% of abortions are for lifestyle reasons.

4

There are plenty of Kurdish doctors from Sweden going there, doing abortions on 9 year olds.

5

In countries with high rates of sex-selective abortions, I fear violent crime rates, particularly sex crime, will skyrocket.

6

No doctor, hospital, or medical facility has _ever_ been forced into providing abortions.

7

Yet sex selective abortions aren't a problem in much of the world.

8

In China's case, sex selective abortions are a result of the laws.

9

Some common vaccines are derived from human fetal cell lines, and those fetal cell lines are themselves derived from a handful of elective abortions.

10

Multiple countries allow doctors to refuse to perform abortions.

11

Only at the state level are Abortions at risk.

12

What about letting people opt-out of providing abortions?

Quote examples

1

It's really depressing that such an anachronistic notion (of carrying on your family's "name") is still so prevalent that it results in tens of millions of abortions of unwanted girls.

2

Please enlighten me as to my definition, near as I can tell I used the adverbial form exactly as defined here: "not under the control of another; as one wishes." Were you inferring that I meant that abortions and birth control are always freely available?

3

There are some statements that I suspect make intuitive conclusions, and many of which I suspect are right (e.g., availability of birth control lowers the rate of abortions and unplanned pregnancies), but even those with which I agree are relegated to the portion of my mind that holds the "do not recite this" category of statistics.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use abortions in a sentence?

Personally if I had to choose between banning abortions or a government that completely ignores the 4th amendment I'd have to choose to ban abortions.

What does abortions mean?

An induced abortion.

What part of speech is abortions?

abortions is commonly used as noun.