abortion tour

English

Noun

abortion tour (plural abortion tours)

  1. (rare) An instance of abortion tourism; a trip made for the purpose of obtaining an abortion where it is legal.
    • 1969, The Asia Letter:
      "ABORTION TOURS" TO JAPAN are increasing. Despite more liberal attitudes and legislation in some parts of the United States, discretion still compels thousands of women annually to fly to Japan for the operations.
    • 2018, Tanya Renne, Ana's Land: Sisterhood In Eastern Europe, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32:
      Abortion tours have already begun, most often to the former Soviet republics. The social and political atmosphere created by Catholic and neoliberal fundamentalists is encouraging discrimination, posing serious threats to freedom of ...
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.