abortern.

1853 H. M'Cormack Moral-Sanatory Econ. i. 4 Forty thousand illegitimate children..are yearly born in England, besides those who perish, sometimes mother and child together, through the execrable arts of hired aborters!

1870 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 45 3 Those persons calling themselves ‘Coffinites’, ‘Herbalists’, or ‘Botanists’; who too often conceal the profitable trades of procurers and aborters beneath the thin veil of selling peculiar drugs.

1912 W. J. Robinson Sexual Probl. To-day 156 I have always had deep contempt for the hypocrite..who would..stigmatize the one guilty of an abortion, whether it be the aborter or abortee.

1939 S. W. Halperin Italy & Vatican at War xiii. 432 The Sinistra, which had expected to muster a majority in the upper house, refused to be consoled and vented its wrath upon the aborters of its pet project.

1940 H. I. Clarke Social Legislation vii. 147 Penalties for violation are imposed both upon the patient and aborter.

1963 Columbia Law Rev. 63 616 Is a thief the accomplice of his receiver,..an abortee the accomplice of the aborter, a perjurer the accomplice of his suborner?

1881 Detroit Lancet Oct. 142/1 (title) The parturient history of some aborters.

1895 Vet. Jrnl. & Ann. Compar. Pathol. 41 73 The owner sold the aborters and bought others, but in the following year all the new cows..aborted.

1938 Times 21 Nov. 20/6 To replace aborters by clean animals..is generally fatal because the new cows become infected at once.

1970 Stud. Family Planning 1 7/3 Contraceptors are more likely to be aborters.

1993 P. Sachdev Sex, Abortion & Unmarried Women iii. 55 (note) Repeat aborters experience significantly less decline in the emotional distress symptoms within two to three weeks following the abortion.

2004 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 27 Mar. 37 For years farmers were told to breed from ewes who had previously aborted a lamb because of toxoplasma, since it was thought that previous aborters would have developed immunity.