Synonym: miscarriage. Similar words: portion, collaboration, proportion, in proportion to, participation, a bone of contention, transportation, labor. Meaning: [ə'bɔːʃn] n. 1. termination of pregnancy 2. failure of a plan.
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(91) Y., referring to the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
(92) Before the convention, Republicans squabbled over the perennially hot-button abortion issue.
(93) Alan Keyes, an eloquent black talk-show host who fervently opposes abortion, has never officially abandoned the race.
(94) Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.
(95) The bill would have banned an abortion procedure known to health professionals as intact dilation and extraction.
(96) Thousands turn to illegal abortion services, thousands more give birth to children they neither wanted nor can afford.
(97) The jury did not believe Evans's story about his wife's abortion, as there was no evidence of it.
(98) Unable to scrape together the money for a safe, legal abortion, she turned to an illegal abortionist.
(99) But the abortion issue was not a big factor in either Virginia or New Jersey.
(100) Congressional representatives and religious leaders fired off faxes condemning violence at abortion clinics.
(101) The other said that Courtney carried out an illegal abortion at her home.
(102) It is an important protection against behaving in unprofessional ways like procuring an illegal abortion or killing a handicapped baby.
(103) But how often is the mule's gestation cut short by spontaneous abortion?
(104) Yet all over the world the campaign against abortion continues.
(105) The highly publicized abortion debate overshadowed the rest of the platform that calls for a smorgasbord of constitutional amendments.
(106) Back then Republicans did not wear polyester or worry about gays and abortion.
(107) These figures are heroes to conservatives for their espousal of policies that are meat and drink to the right,(Sentencedict.com) especially abortion.
(108) The draft retains the abortion rights position of the 1992 platform, but adds language suggested by abortion opponent Rep.
(109) This is why access to safe, reliable, legal abortion is what most women want.
(110) Short of legalizing abortion, lives could be saved if doctors were better trained to deal with septic or incomplete abortions.
(111) He is vehemently opposed to abortion, gay rights and many aspirations of the Third World.
(112) Mack, a solid conservative who opposes abortion, could help Dole in electoral vote-rich Florida.
(113) But most feminists do not believe that abortion is merely the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy.
(114) He held his own with other voters in spite of his views on abortion.
(115) That is why the debate over abortion is more often a slanging match than a dialogue.
(116) Some delegates have indicated they will oppose a vice presidential nominee who is not solidly against abortion.
(117) They also demanded that President Reagan announce an end to legal abortion in the United States.
(118) Janet Hadley looks at both sides of the abortion debate.
(119) So furious had he been that he had wanted to perform an abortion himself,(sentencedict.com) immediately.
(120) Buchanan made a special appeal to abortion opponents, a group of voters whose support he generally shares with Gramm and Keyes.
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