late-term
Adjective
Meaning
late-term (comparative more late-term, superlative most late-term)
In, pertaining to, or occurring during an advanced stage, especially of pregnancy.
Examples
As to the issue of abortion, Canadians are almost evenly split, especially when it comes to late-term abortion.
As a result, the church is "reluctant to affirm abortion as an acceptable practice," and condemns the use of late-term or partial birth abortion except as a medical necessity.
As a born-again believer, Marksberry said abortion was important to her as she described her vote for Proposition 115, the late-term abortion ban that failed.
Although Mr. Kline emphasized statutory rape in his news conference, many here on both sides of the abortion debate said they suspected that his real target was doctors who provide late-term abortions.
"Late" is an acceptable descriptor for abortion; "late-term" is not.
Any woman who visits the site dies after fifteen days have elapsed, always from complications related to a late-term pregnancy that friends and family insist did not exist.