abort-, aborti- +

1. To give birth before the fetus is viable; to have a miscarriage; or a reference to something that fails to be completed.
2. To cut short because of some failure in equipment: "To abort a flight because of radio failure."
3. Originally, "to set" or "to disappear" (as the sun). Composed of ab-, "from" and oriri- "to arise"; the part of the sky, or the world, in which the sun rises; the East.

The killing of a fetus during an abortion.

A drug or device that causes an abortion or kills the fetus before birth.

1. Expulsion of a fetus from the womb before it is viable; however, medical personnel will also use this term for a miscarriage, which is involuntary, calling it a "spontaneous abortion".
2. Induced termination of pregnancy before the fetus is capable of independent survival.
3. Anything that fails to develop, progress, or mature; such as, a design, project, or a badly developed plan, etc.
4. To miscarry, to disappear.
4. Etymology: ab-, "from, away from" and oriri, "to come into being, to rise, to be born".

The support or advocacy of abortion-on-demand.

1. Anyone who believes and promotes the practice of abortion.
2. Someone who makes a business of inducing illegal abortions.
3. A person who supports, or advocates, abortion-on-demand.

The right of a pregnant woman to have an abortion at any time during pregnancy.

1. A reference to being incompletely developed.
2. Effecting an abortion; abortifacient (a drug or device that causes abortion) or an intervention to end a pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus from the womb.
3. Cutting short the course of a disease.
4. Failing to accomplish an objective, futile; imperfectly developed.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

Failing to accomplish an intended result: "Solving the financial crisis might result in an abortive effort."

A clinic (clinics) or a hospital (hospitals) where abortions are performed.

1. A fetus which weighs less than 500 gm. (17 oz.) or is less than twenty weeks' gestational age at the time of expulsion from the uterus, having no chance of survival.
2. To pass away, to perish.

Something that has been aborted or stopped.

Opposition to abortions.

A person who is opposed to abortions.

Happening subsequent to, or after, an abortion.