Crossword clues for abortionist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 the latter term is preferred among those who do not consider the procedure as morally reprehensible.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, from abortion + -ist.
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 abortion. 3 (context in anti-abortion discourse offensive English) One who favors abortion being legal. (since the late 19th century)
WordNet
n. a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies
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.