The phrase "abortive projects" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe initiatives or plans that have failed to achieve their intended goals or outcomes.
Example: "Despite the initial enthusiasm, many of the company's abortive projects were ultimately shelved due to lack of funding."
Alternatives: "failed initiatives" or "unsuccessful ventures".
"I had found Joseph Conrad's book immensely powerful, with a very rich collection of characters," Pinter once said of the abortive project.
In 1974, Ailes took on an abortive project to sell cheap, easy to use "news" segments for local stations without the resources to cover national news.
Marochetti also pursued an abortive project to install a second giant equestrian statue in Old Palace Yard, this time portraying Edward, the Black Prince.
After an abortive project in 1962, MRD was commissioned in 1964 to build an Indycar chassis powered by an American Offenhauser engine.
In 2009 the foundation began removing metal and rebar snow fences embedded in the soil just below the pass summit during the 1960s as part of an abortive project to increase meltwater capture by the Twin Lakes Tunnel.
He had become frustrated that the group had been unable to produce a film of Tommy or Lifehouse (the abortive project that resulted in Who's Next), and decided to follow Frank Zappa's idea of producing a musical soundtrack that could produce a narrative in the same way as a film.
Steven Soderbergh has also worked on two abortive 3D projects, Contagion (eventually shot in 2D instead) and a Cleopatra musical.
"Project Orion," in 2002, focused on an abortive NASA project to use nuclear bombs to power space rockets.
In its statement, Monitor admitted the abortive book project had been a "serious mistake on our part".
(Sadly, that was another abortive film project, the adaptation of a Terry Pratchett book called, with cosmic irony, Good Omen).
