therapeutic abortion

1. 1.

   a legally induced abortion for medical reasons (as when the mother's life is threatened)

   Broaderinduced abortion

Questions about therapeutic abortion

What does therapeutic abortion mean?

therapeutic abortion means "a legally induced abortion for medical reasons (as when the mother's life is threatened)".

Is therapeutic abortion a common word?

therapeutic abortion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.