Abortionist

Quick meaning: Abortionist is a noun meaning (now sometimes offensive) A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly.

Meaning

(now sometimes offensive) A person who performs abortions, especially illegally or secretly.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly derogatory) A person who advocates for or supports the legality of abortion.

Example Sentences

Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested].

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abortionist.

Such a fetus is perfectly viable save for the act of the abortionist.

[…] a gruesome procedure in which the abortionist dismembers a child who could survive outside the womb.

Word Forms

• abortionists

Synonyms for abortionist

Depending on context, synonyms include aborter, pro-abortionist, pro-choicer, pro-deather.

Antonyms for abortionist

Common opposites include anti-abortionist, anti-choicer, forced-birther, pro-lifer, right-to-lifer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include backstreet, aborter, abortuary, baby-killer, abuser, illegal.

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