How to Use abortifacient in a Sentence

abortifacient

noun
  • In all, at least a quarter of the channels appear to be hawking more than just abortifacients.
    — WIRED, 23 June 2023
  • Like other prescription drugs, though, abortifacients are legal in some countries but not others.
    — WIRED, 23 June 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
  • Banks don’t operate on fishing vessels or dispense abortifacients.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Yet mifepristone is not, by itself, a highly effective abortifacient.
    — Patrick Adams, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Hidden in a suitcase are boxes of mifepristone and misoprostol, two abortifacients used in conjunction with one another.
    — Carmen Valeria Escobar, WIRED, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Packer told the Idaho Capital Sun last year that the group wants to clarify that contraceptives and abortifacients are not the same.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 7 June 2024
  • Indeed, 19 states have already prohibited telemedicine visits for abortifacients.
    — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Historically, cantharidin was used as an aphrodisiac, vesicant and abortifacient.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • But this drug can be seen as an abortifacient, so some doctors in restrictive states might opt to remove the patient’s fallopian tube instead, according to Osmundson, which could impair her future fertility.
    — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Within 48 hours of taking mifepristone, the patient is instructed to take misoprostol, the second chemical abortifacient, to induce uterine contractions to expel the pregnancy.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 6 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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