abortion-on-demand

abortion-on-demand
/euh bawr"sheuhn on di mand", -mahnd", -awn-/, n.
1. the right of a woman to have an abortion during the first six months of a pregnancy.
2. an abortion performed on a woman solely at her own request.
[1970-75]

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