How to Use abortifacient in a Sentence

abortifacient

noun

• Like other prescription drugs, though, abortifacients are legal in some countries but not others.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• This is the important context for the donnybrook over the abortifacient mifepristone, which the FDA has authorized through the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 9 Apr. 2023
• The author mentioned in passing that parsley was an abortifacient, and a poison in great quantities.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
• These groups also alleged that the mandate required them to subsidize abortifacients—even though the contraception in question did not, in fact, induce abortions.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 6 Oct. 2017
• Catholic moralists oppose the administration of methotrexate as an abortifacient even in the case of ectopic pregnancy, and Catholic hospitals do not provide it as a treatment.
  — Joanna Petrone, Longreads, 18 Aug. 2017
• In the 1930s there were some rulings around the Comstock Act that broadened its application to different kinds of birth control but at the same time limited how the law could be used if people were sending abortifacients for unlawful uses.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Apr. 2023
• Enter Norma, a thirteen-year-old girl who becomes pregnant after being serially raped by her stepfather, and receives an abortifacient from the Witch.
  — The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• The rule on moral objections cited a case brought against the Obama administration in 2015 by the March for Life, an antiabortion group that contends certain types of emergency contraception could be abortifacients.
  — Louise Radnofsky, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
• Yet mifepristone is not, by itself, a highly effective abortifacient.
  — Patrick Adams, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022
• The Obama Administration tried to force the Catholic nuns and other religious groups to provide their employees with contraceptives, including abortifacients, in violation of their beliefs.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• And nationwide, antiabortion activists are gearing up for another round of efforts to curb access, with parental-notification requirements and bans on abortifacient medications.
  — Tim Craig, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2019
• Historically, cantharidin was used as an aphrodisiac, vesicant and abortifacient.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2017
• Nowhere in any of its representations in court does the university distinguish between its sincerely held religious beliefs regarding contraception and those regarding abortifacients.
  — Elizabeth Kirk, National Review, 10 Feb. 2018
• This fake science also justifies the use of abortifacients and early human embryos in experimental research in human cloning, embryonic-stem-cell therapy, and genetic engineering, including synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and gene splicing.
  — Brooke Stanton, National Review, 5 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024