The phrase "abortive question" is not commonly used in written English, but it is grammatically correct.
You can use it to describe a question that fails to achieve its intended purpose or leads to an unproductive discussion.
Example: "The committee's abortive question about funding only confused the stakeholders further."
Alternatives: "fruitless question" or "unproductive question".
After successive abortive attempts to grapple with the question of how it will all be paid for – and how to avert the threat of the old and infirm forced to sell their homes to pay for their care – radical reform is an issue that can no longer be ducked.
The Baltic question figured as a stumbling block in the abortive British-French negotiations with the U.S.S.R. in the summer of 1939.
The CIA has questions to answer about its involvement in the abortive 2002 coup against Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
His book ends with an account of biography's founding father, James Boswell, battling depression in his early 20's for the same reason and with the same weapon ("It was one way+...+of avoiding suicide"), distancing himself from an abortive love affair with a portrait in words of the girl in question.
And because the abortive patent settlement is also now the subject of a federal criminal inquiry, some analysts raised questions about whether Peter R. Dolan, Bristol-Myers's chief executive, can survive.
Patients were instructed to complete the structured follow-up questionnaire, which included questions on the monthly frequency of headaches, the number of acute abortive medications taken per month, and the HIT-6 form [12]. Patients completed the migraine assessment of current therapy (migraine-ACT) questionnaire [16] when the cumulative use of acute treatment was more than three times.
The abortive rebellions dramatized the need to reform Canada's outmoded and constrictive constitution, prompting the "Canadian question" to become a leading issue in British politics.
Through open-ended questions, the interviewer asked the farmer or veterinarian to talk about their knowledge of abortive diseases, their perception of this issue, and the difficulties and barriers to participating in the surveillance system (Table 1).
Efforts by Swedes and Prussians proved abortive.
There have been abortive attempts so far.
