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The termination of a pregnancy at any time after implantation in the uterus and before viability (ability to survive outside the uterus) of the fetus. For the purposes of this website, abortion refers to a medical procedure performed by a licensed physician, intended to terminate an intrauterine pregnancy, producing a non-viable fetus at any gestational age.
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Purposeful termination of pregnancy with intention other than to produce a live born infant or to remove a dead fetus.
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Canadian Criminal Code provisions which restricted women's access to abortion were struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988 as an unconstitutional infringement of a woman's right to the security of her person. Unless or until Parliament produces new law, Canada has no criminal legislation on the subject of abortion.
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med jur. and criminal law. The expulsion of the foetus before the seventh mouth of utero-gestation, or before it is viable. qv
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The fruit of an abortion; the child born before its time, incapable of life. See Abortion; Birth; Breath; Dead bord; Gestation; Life. ABOVE. Literally higher in place: But in law this word is sometimes used to designate the superior court, or one which may revise proceedings of an inferior court error, from such inferior jurisdiction. The court of error is called the court above; the court whose proceedings are to be examined is called the court below.
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