therapeutic abortion

noun

1. abortion performed when a woman's pregnancy endangers her health.

Example Sentences

Peru did change its laws to allow for therapeutic abortions, in which a pregnancy involves serious health risks, but access on the ground remains restricted, just like in Ecuador.

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Women seeking abortions for their physical and psychological health — these were known as “therapeutic abortions” — often had to appear before hospital committees of physicians, mostly male, to get permission.

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They’ve been wrong, as has been demonstrated by the rising tide of incidents in which pregnant women have been exposed to severe injury or near-death experiences for want of a therapeutic abortion.

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She begins pushing back and breaking free after the medical board’s initial ruling, first by claiming to be suicidal so she can obtain a therapeutic abortion.

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Of those, nearly 60% developed severe complications - nearly double the number of complications experienced by patients in other states who had immediate therapeutic abortions.

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