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Answer for the clue "A person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies ", 11 letters:
abortionist

Word definitions for abortionist in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now often historical English) One who performs an illegal abortion in a non-medical setting (a back street, a hotel room, etc). 2 (context chiefly in anti-abortion discourse pejorative English) An abortion provider; one who performs a legal ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, from abortion + -ist .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abortionist \A*bor"tion*ist\, n. One who performs or procures abortion; among medical personnel, also called an abortion provider . Note: The word abortionist has negative connotations from the time when the practise was illegal in the United States, and ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ No government has ever made abortion a capital crime or executed either a pregnant woman or an abortionist for murder. ▪ The professional abortionist was a last resort. ▪ Unable to scrape together the money for a safe, legal ...

Usage examples of abortionist.

The less successful of the female abortionists, whose practice or business is limited, to some extent, through lack of funds to advertise the same, are content with considerably less sums for their services.

The air filled with cheering, like Jesus had scored the winner in the last minute of the Moral Cup Final against the Godless Gay Abortionist Prostitute Pornographers XI.

Skreta, a gynecologist and abortionist who represents another kind of idealism, that of the scientist.

The rotten, mean-faced, clipped-haired abortionists, our present-day fascist jackboots, are selling baby parts and making millions of dollars in their factories of death.

He wondered what the sterile pages of that engagement calendar concealed: an affair, blackmail, drugs, abortionists, or just one more lonely victim of the big city?

I once wrote that late-term abortionists are the reincarnation of Joseph Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death.

I heard men beg for work who had been Egyptologists, botanists, surgeons, gold-miners, professors of Oriental languages, musicians, engineers, physicians, astronomers, anthropologists, chemists, mathematicians, mayors of cities and governors of states, prison warders, cow-punchers, lumberjacks, sailors, oyster pirates, stevedores, riveters, dentists, surgeons, painters, sculptors, plumbers, architects, dope peddlers, abortionists, white slavers, sea divers, steeplejacks, farmers, cloak and suit salesmen, trappers, lighthouse keepers, pimps, aldermen, senators, every bloody thing under the sun, and all of them down and out, begging for work for cigarettes, for carfare, for a chance, Christ Almighty, just another chance!

He was too busy implementing his newest fund-raising scheme, the Male Chauvinist Organization (MACHO), which he hoped would milk mucho denaros from Russ Meyers, illegal abortionists, pimps, industrialists who regularly paid female workers thirty percent of the salaries of men doing the same jobs, and all others threatened by the Women's Liberation Movement.