abortuaryn.
/əˈbɔːtjʊəri/, /əˈbɔːtjᵿri/, /əˈbɔːtʃʊəri/, /əˈbɔːtʃ(ᵿ)ri/, U.S. /əˈbɔrtʃəˌwɛri/ derogatory (originally and chiefly North American).
In the language of anti-abortion campaigners: a clinic in which abortions are performed.
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1983 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 4 June a2/3 That's what the battle is all about: closing down this abortuary.
1985 J. M. Scheidler Closed: 99 Ways to stop Abortion xlvii. 181 Samples of ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ that pro-lifers must use at appropriate times to counter pro-abortion jargon are: ‘holocaust’, for America's abortion culture, ‘abortuary’ or ‘death camp’, to describe the abortion clinic.
1995 Catholic Insight Apr. 3/1 Turning to the question of violence against abortionists, how would people view some of the recent attacks if the abortuary were, let us say, an over-75 ‘removal centre’?
2001 Australian (Nexis) 19 July 11 We right to lifers..[have] reached out to help post-aborted women grieving for their lost children and protested peacefully outside these abortuaries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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