'abortifacient' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is defined as a substance or agent that induces abortion. Example: The use of certain medications during pregnancy can have abortifacient effects, leading to termination of the pregnancy.
Other opponents have argued that Plan B is an abortifacient.
Three states have banned doctors from prescribing abortifacient medicine remotely, as is often done in rural areas; such prescriptions now account for roughly one in five non-hospital abortions in America.
Critics complained that filling out the form implicated them in the provision of (what they consider to be) abortifacient devices and pills.
It is effective at inducing abortion in the early weeks of pregnancy (see abortifacient).
In addition, within a single genus such as Daphne, species are variously used clinically as a safe abortifacient and a purgative, and the plants are of some horticultural interest.
Even in predominantly Catholic France the controversial abortifacient drug RU-486 is readily available.
The incidents listed included acts of vandalism or desecration against Christian churches; the failure of Christian health workers (doctors, nurses, pharmacists) to obtain opt-outs of conscience when asked to participate in abortions or sell abortifacients; and the similar fate of Christian marriage registrars, relationship counsellors or hoteliers who baulked at same-sex unions.
The president is also waging a "silent war on religious liberty", Mr Jindal claims, citing an unsuccessful attempt to force companies with devout owners to subsidise contraceptives they consider abortifacients.
The government had argued that third-party actions are insufficient to bring a RFRA claim: the owners of Hobby Lobby would be burdened if the government forced their daughters to take abortifacients, but merely having to permit others access to such drugs under Hobby-Lobby-provided insurance fails to meet that standard.
As evangelical Christians, David Green and his family members asserted that they could not, in good conscience, pay to supply their employees with birth control devices and drugs they considered to be abortifacients.
Some consider IUDs to be abortifacients because they could prevent a fertilised egg from implanting in the uterus.
