lunchtime abortion
English
Etymology
So called because the procedure might conceivably be performed within the patient's lunchbreak.
Noun
lunchtime abortion (plural lunchtime abortions)
- (derogatory) A conveniently available abortion, performed under local anesthetic soon after the onset of pregnancy.
- 1983, Family Protection Report (volume 5)
- Aitken testified, "In recent years I personally have been involved in fights to prevent the State Health Service from closing down baby care facilities and opening 'lunchtime abortion clinics' instead."
- 1986, Mary Kenny, Abortion: the whole story (page 287)
- Abortion became so much easier. I remember Germaine Greer wildly proclaiming to the women of the world that here was another new thing that was going to liberate women further, and that was the lunchtime abortion.
- 2000, The Tablet (page 398)
- "We are already seeing an increase in post-abortion trauma in women who have had 'quickie' lunchtime abortions", he said, "as they have had insufficient time truly to consider the options available to them."
- 1983, Family Protection Report (volume 5)