English-French translations for abortion

• avortement
  C'est une attaque indirecte contre le droit à l'avortement. This is an indirect attack on the right to abortion
  Ou, en troisième lieu, cette formulation inclut-elle aussi l'avortement? Or, thirdly, does it also include abortion?
  En outre, je ne peux pas concevoir que l'on soit en faveur de l'avortement. A positive attitude to abortion is inconceivable to me.
• avorton
• fausse couche
• interruption volontaire de grossesse
  Si je prends un combat que j'ai mené, qui est celui de l'interruption volontaire de grossesse, la loi belge est restée inadaptée pendant des années. To take a campaign which I myself conducted, the abortion campaign, the Belgian law has been unchanged for many years.
  Oui, je regrette, parce que dans ce débat, on est en train de refaire le débat sur l'interruption volontaire de grossesse et cela m'inquiète beaucoup. I am indeed sorry. It does appear that in this debate we are reworking the debate on abortion and this is causing me considerable concern.
• IVG
  Depuis le début de ma carrière politique, je me bats pour que les femmes aient accès à l'IVG dans un encadrement médical sûr. Ever since I started my political career, I have campaigned for women's access to abortion in a safe medical setting.

Definition of abortion

• The expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus; either naturally as a spontaneous abortion , or deliberately as an induced abortion.
• An aborted foetus; an abortus.
• A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.
• Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.
• Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

Synonyms

• pregnancy
• pregnancy

Related words

• antiabortionist
• abortionist
• abortional
• abortionism
• anti-abortion
• antiabortion
• anti-abortionist
• proabortion
• proabortionist