“The deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy.”

What is an “Abortion”?

Since ancient times abortions have been done using herbal medicines, sharp tools, with force, or through other traditional methods. Induced abortion has long history, and can be traced back to civilizations as varied as China (c. 2700 BCE), Ancient Egypt (c. 1550 BCE), and the Roman Empire in the time of Juvenal (c. 200 CE)

Bas-relief in Cambodia, c. 1150, depicting a demon inducing an abortion by pounding the abdomen of a pregnant woman with a pestle