abortionist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈbɔɹ.ʃə.nɪst/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]abortionist (plural abortionists)
- (now sometimes offensive) A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly. [from 1844]
- Synonyms: (rare) aborter, (historical, euphemistic) angel maker, (UK) jack-knife barber
- 1844 March 26, New-York Daily Tribune:
- Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested].
- 1848 October 7, “Morals and Murder – the Case of Eliza Wilson”, in The Medical Times[1], volume 18, number 471, London, page 373:
- The quack abortionist, with “a little knowledge,” impudently, remorselessly, and secretly employs his craft for filthy lucre’s sake, perpetrating one crime to conceal another, at which science and charity blush.
- 1998, J. David Bleich, Bioethical Dilemmas: A Jewish Perspective, volume 1, Hoboken, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House, →ISBN, page 277:
- Such a fetus is perfectly viable save for the act of the abortionist.
- 2003, Mark Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, 3rd edition, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 24:
- According to Bray, “there is a difference between taking a retired abortionist and executing him, and killing a practicing abortionist who is regularly killing babies.” The first act is in Bray’s view retributive, the second defensive.
- 2005, Paul Krassner, One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist, →ISBN, page 24:
- In 1962, when abortion was still illegal, I published an anonymous interview with Dr. Robert Spencer, a humane abortionist who was known as “The Saint.”
- 2009, Dinesh D’Souza, Letters to a Young Conservative, →ISBN, page 191:
- […] a gruesome procedure in which the abortionist dismembers a child who could survive outside the womb.
- 2009–2010, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2010, review of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, page 146:
- Then she asks her to go first to meet the abortionist. Then she neglects to make a reservation at the hotel the abortionist specifies. That almost sinks the arrangement: The abortionist has experience suggesting that hotel will be a safe venue, and suspects he may be set up for a police trap.
- (chiefly derogatory) A person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion.
- Synonyms: pro-abortionist, pro-choicer, (derogatory) pro-deather
- Antonyms: anti-abortionist, (derogatory) anti-choicer, (derogatory) fetus fetishist, (derogatory) forced-birther, pro-lifer, right-to-lifer
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]person who performs abortions — see also angel maker
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person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion
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References
[edit]- “abortionist, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021.