somnifacient

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In 1994, the science journalist Gina Kolata examined claims that particular flora worked as abortifacients.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2022

Because misoprostol has multiple uses, it’s more readily available than medications that are primarily abortifacients.

From The Verge • May 5, 2022

For instance, in the Hippocratic Oath, Hippocrates refuses to assist in or recommend euthanasia and additionally refuses to give women abortifacients given the danger to which they put the life of the mother.

From Scientific American • Dec. 11, 2020

The first laws against the sale of abortifacients were not meant to prohibit their use or to restrict abortion, but rather to regulate substances that often poisoned their users.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2017

A reprehensible practice is that of certain so-called "mail order chemists," who send out price-lists of contraceptives and abortifacients indiscriminately through the post.

From Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand by McMillan, D. G. (David Gervan)