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- noun Plural form of
abortifacient .
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Examples
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These poisons are called abortifacients because they may cause early abortions. ...
Don C. Reed: How Not to Have Sex in Colorado: the Personhood Amendment 2010
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In a family planning clinic, on the other hand, an employee's unwillingness to participate on religious grounds in medical services involving contraceptives that can be characterized as abortifacients, or involving sterilization procedures, may make a significant difference to the clinic's operations.
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In a family planning clinic, on the other hand, an employee's unwillingness to participate on religious grounds in medical services involving contraceptives that can be characterized as abortifacients, or involving sterilization procedures, may make a significant difference to the clinic's operations.
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They have taken to calling the most common forms of contraceptives "abortifacients," despite the pesky little detail that in order for an abortion to take place, conception needs to occur.
Terry Cosgrove: So-Called Pro-Lifers Should Stop Promoting Abortion 2008
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So will the religious right: sweeping bans on abortions, which could be pushed further to include anything the anti-abortion zealots consider to be "abortifacients," in other words most forms of birth control except condoms, plus Abstinence Only and Creationism in the schools.
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To the movement, the most effective birth control methods--the Pill, emergency contraception, the IUD--are "abortifacients" and "mini-abortions," and even barrier methods like the condom promote a "contraceptive mentality": a selfish, licentious attitude that leads straight to abortion hell.
puritans 2006
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To the movement, the most effective birth control methods--the Pill, emergency contraception, the IUD--are "abortifacients" and "mini-abortions," and even barrier methods like the condom promote a "contraceptive mentality": a selfish, licentious attitude that leads straight to abortion hell.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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The unfortunate woman who has had recourse to the drug then imagines that she has committed infanticide, and in intention she has; but the actual event has not been the result of the drug, unless that drug was one of the poisonous kind known as "abortifacients" and abortion took place in the convulsion which followed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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But now they are also forcing Catholic institutions to take part in the destruction of innocent human lives and the maiming of others by paying for abortifacients and sterilizations.
Ken Blackwell: Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville? Ken Blackwell 2011
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There, too, liberal zealots were demanding that the Catholic school, founded in 1876, provide contraception, abortifacients, and sterilizations or face federal sanctions.
Ken Blackwell: Will Obama Destroy Franciscan University of Steubenville? Ken Blackwell 2011
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