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illegal abortion

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illegal abortion,
an abortion performed contrary to the laws regulating abortion. Illegal abortions are often associated with life-threatening complications. See also septic abortion.


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[T]he Church pays only lip service to illegal abortion since it does not directly threaten Church authority and thus Church power.
Authorities acting on a public tip detained 23 people, including customers seeking to buy babies, during raids on an illegal abortion clinic and four homes Thursday, said a police official in southern Johor state.
The surprise winner of the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival, this extraordinary portrait of illegal abortion in Eighties Romania equals Mike Leigh's marvellous Vera Drake in laying bare the vicissitudes of denying a woman's right to choose.
 
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