Meanings
adjectiveabortable (not comparable)
- not comparableCapable of being aborted.
I spent weeks after my miscarriage trying to understand. . . . Had I lost a baby, or "just" a 16-week fetus, not viable outside the womb, abortable under law?
1994 June 26, Susan Chira, “Hers: When Hope Died”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013
Origin
Translations
Portuguese abortável
- abortávelcapable of being aborted
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