Synonyms for abortion
əˈbɔr ʃənabor·tion

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1. abortion

   Synonyms:
   failure, miscarriage, misadventure, downfall, mishap, misproduction, defect, frustration, blunder, mess

   Antonyms:
   success, consummation, completion, achievement, realization, perfection, exploit, feat, development

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1. abortionnoun

   termination of pregnancy

   Synonyms:
   miscarriage

2. miscarriage, abortionnoun

   failure of a plan

   Synonyms:
   spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth

Matched Categories

1. • Failure
   • Termination

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1. abortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   miscarriage

2. abortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   failure, disappointment, want of success, vain effort or attempt

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1. abortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   miscarriage, failure, frustration, castling, mooncalf, monster

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1. List of paraphrases for "abortion":

   miscarriage, abortions

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1. Elisabeth Smith:

   We are living in a much more surveilled culture than we were in 1972 and prior, so in a future where abortion rights are limited or there's not a federal right, people will be at risk for exercising their bodily autonomy, the consequences of those decisions are likely to fall hardest on Black, brown, Indigenous people of color.

2. Elizabeth Prelogar:

   If states are permitted to ban pre-viability abortion, the effects are likely to be felt most acutely by young women, women of color, and those of lesser means, further diminishing their opportunities to participate fully and equally in the Nation's social and economic life.

3. Brian Fletcher:

   The simple matter of fact is that the pro-abortion crowd has successfully, up until now, gotten the courts to wall off the criminal enforcement of abortion restrictions and that is preposterous for all the reasons that you can imagine.

4. Kim Quintero:

   Violent pro-abortion protestors' attempts of an insurrection at the Arizona State Senate were thwarted Friday night, thanks to the swift actions from local and state law enforcement.

5. Paul Smith:

   Abortion, gun rights and affirmative action would be monumental. That said, there, in those cases, particularly in the abortion case and in the gun case, there are ways they could decide the more broadly or more narrowly, so part of the blockbuster nature of the term will depend on whether they really go very far and say, overrule Roe v. Wade, or simply narrow it in the abortion case.