But medical science is clear: emergency contraception is not an abortifacient.
It is sometimes taken as an abortifacient or given as an aphrodisiac, but whether it has any such action is open to question.
Amongst them must theoretically be included all abortifacient drugs.
The oil of savin is now occasionally used criminally as an abortifacient.
Diachylon, or lead-plaster, is largely used as an abortifacient.
It is also used as an abortifacient, but is too mild a uterine stimulant to be reliable for that purpose.
Unfavorable publicity, the abortifacient of new enterprises, would mean you could hardly give the stuff away.
1875, noun and adjective, from Latin abortus (see abortive) + facientem "making," related to facere "do" (see factitious). An earlier word for this in the noun sense was abortive (1640s).
abortifacient a·bor·ti·fa·cient (ə-bôr'tə-fā'shənt)
adj.
Causing or inducing abortion.
