therapeutic abortion

noun

May the physician call in a physician who, he knows, will not scruple to perform the therapeutic abortion on an unviable fetus?

That the civil law permits therapeutic abortion is no excuse at all; it is merely a disgrace of the civil law.

The question is, May the physician perform therapeutic abortion in such circumstances?

In these cases, if the therapeutic abortion is deferred until very late, the patient will die of exhaustion.

Therapeutic abortion in typhoid is very likely to cause death, yet a number of women recover after abortion.

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