How to Use abortifacient in a Sentence

abortifacient

noun

• 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
• 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: 24 Jul 2024