abortion mill
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9.3
- noun
- /əˈbɔrʃən mɪl/
- Offensive
:
abortorio
- My wife, Greta, is now in heaven caring for those killed in the abortion mills.
Examples
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In addition, by the government providing tax dollars to an abortion mill like Planned Parenthood, they are forcing pro-life people to pay for abortions.
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The irony is that abortion is less popular, and there are fewer abortion mills now.
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Of course, God has also had a say from time to time when the abortion mills try to murder one of his children and they survive.
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Abortion mills are about a death business, and they have a better count of our success than we do, through no-shows for the appointments.
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As the largest abortion mill in the country, the majority of Planned Parenthood's income is from performing abortions.
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Yet, terrorists do continue to find ways to board airplanes, and medical transport vans, taxis, and cars drop off women for the final 10-yard walk into the abortion mill.
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Here is a short report of some of the exciting events that took place as Jason Storms and his School of Evangelism moved into Little Rock, Arkansas, after we had just finished storming the gates of hell at the last free-standing abortion mill there.
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Moral equivalency, defining down deviancy, and plain old-fashioned libertinistic tendencies among liberals have caused the slaughter of the abortion mills.
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They all had magnificent haircuts, and they all wore worried Park Avenue forehead wrinkles as they huddled across from an abortion-mill owner accused of massive Medicaid fraud.
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Many people advocate for stronger regulations on abortion mills to ensure patient safety and ethical practices.
How Commercial
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning combines the literal 'abortion' with a figurative use of 'mill' (factory/processing site), so a learner can infer it refers to a place that performs abortions and suggests mass-production. However, the pejorative implication (unethical, high-volume, critical stance) depends on knowing the metaphorical use of 'mill' and evaluative nuance, which a B1 learner who only knows the basic word senses may not fully predict.
Etymology
Abortion mill puts abortion and mill together to give a strong image: a mill is a factory that makes many things quickly, so the phrase suggests abortions are done like a machine. That's why people use it to 'criticize' a 'clinic' as 'not caring' or 'high-volume'.