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Definition of Therapeutic abortion
1. Noun. A legally induced abortion for medical reasons (as when the mother's life is threatened).
Medical Definition of Therapeutic abortion
1. An abortion induced because of the mother's physical or mental health, or to prevent birth of a deformed child or a child resulting from rape. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Therapeutic Abortion
Literary usage of Therapeutic abortion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Obstetrics for nurses by Joseph Bolivar De Lee (1917)
"therapeutic abortion.—This term is used to distinguish the operation of ending
the pregnancy before the child is viable from the criminal ..."
2. Moral problems in hospital practice by Patrick A. Finney (1922)
"56) MEDICAL OR therapeutic abortion Question 7: Is medical or therapeutic abortion
ever lawful? Answer: No, it is never lawful. (See Part II, p. 56 top. ..."
3. The Prevention and Treatment of Abortion by Frederick Joseph Taussig (1910)
"APPENDIX C therapeutic abortion therapeutic abortion has been denned as the induction
... The indications for therapeutic abortion may be divided into the ..."
4. The Practice of Obstetrics: Designed for the Use of Students and by James Clifton Edgar (1916)
"therapeutic abortion is strictly contraindicated in cancer of the uterus. If the
case is operable, immediate total hysterectomy is the operation of choice; ..."
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