'aborting' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the present participle form of the verb 'abort', meaning to end or terminate something before it is completed. Example: The pilot announced that they would be aborting the landing due to unfavorable weather conditions.
The anti-abortion movement saw this as the moral equivalent of aborting a fetus found to be malformed before birth, and as an opportunity to ally their cause with that of disability rights.
The student also describes helping at births; the horror of aborting fetuses because they are female; and young women coming for routine abortions, sometimes several a year.
They see the mother as responsible for consciously disabling her child, but I assume they distinguish between a mother aborting a foetus and a mother harming a foetus she intends to bring to life.
Whatever the real number of women aborting pregnancies, the law that makes it a crime is not protecting them.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] ratios in ArmeniaSIR – You drew attention to the practice of aborting female foetuses and the resulting sex imbalances in the Caucasus ("Gendercide in the Caucasus", September 21st).
So too was the fact that he used the occasion to raise several awkward social issues awful sanitation; the too-widespread practice of aborting female foetuses; the shame he feels at the prevalence of rape cases not usually subjects for leaders hoping to stir national pride.
The story goes that on the evening of November 6th, when Mollet got the call from Eden that he was aborting the invasion, he happened to be with the German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.
Her poor, handicapped, parents (both holders of urban Beijing hukou) already had one child, but say they continued with the second pregnancy because of a doctor's advice that aborting the foetus would endanger the mother's health.
See articleAn Afghan Muslim, who escaped a possible death sentence for the crime of becoming a Christian, arrived in Italy where he was immediately granted asylum.The first jail sentence given to medical professionals for aborting a female fetus was handed down in India.
And, anyway, what's so great about aborting babies on an industrial scale, as we do in England?Robin Aitken Oxford.
Investors have just bought $5 billion-worth of loans to First Data, a transaction-processing firm, at a discount and with tougher terms.For the buyers, aborting is not easy.
