Synonyms:
abortionist
Meaning: a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies
Usage examples
When accidental conception takes place, some women of both classes resort to abortion if they can obtain the services of an abortionist.
The abortionist could not continue his practice for twenty-four hours if it were not for the fact that women come desperately begging for such operations.
Shall we go on indefinitely driving the now healthy mother of two children into the hands of the abortionist, where she goes in preference to constant ill health, overwork and the witnessing of dying and starving babies?
Being given their choice by society--to continue to be overburdened mothers or to submit to a humiliating, repulsive, painful and too often gravely dangerous operation, those women in whom the feminine urge to freedom is strongest choose the abortionist.
Knowledge of these processes will also enable us to comprehend more thoroughly the dangers to which woman is exposed by our antiquated laws, and how much better it would be for her to employ such preventive measures as would keep her out of the hands of the abortionist, into which the laws now drive her.