abortionistn.

1844 N.Y. Daily Tribune 26 Mar. 2/3 Mad. Restell, the celebrated Abortionist [is arrested].

1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 63 Professional abortionists—men and women who make a business of infantile murder.

1934 D. D. Bromley Birth Control xi. 143 Abortionists.., as a rule, avoid trouble by refusing to abort a patient who is more than two and a half months along.

1957 J. L. Hodson in ‘C. H. Rolph’ Human Sum x. 192 The woman..who goes to the back-street abortionist.

1987 R. McCammon Swan Song ii. vi. 59 She was fourteen years old and lying on the abortionist's table as the job was done.

1992 Harper's Mag. Nov. 49/1 The abortionist's dwelling, deep in the East End slums, was a good hour-and-a-half journey on various tubes and buses from where I lived.

1972 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 5 June 4/4 These abortionists, knowingly or not, seek to destroy the basic concept of the right-to-life by advocating the murder of unborn children.

1980 Economist 18 Oct. 13/1 It is the duty of government to balance the budget—otherwise inflation results—and to hold back the excessive demands of abortionists, pornographers, drug addicts, homosexuals and women.

2004 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 9 Aug. 17 Nowhere is this more predominant than in the US where open antagonism and acts of violence between abortionists and pro-life groups have been operating since the 1970s.