adjective

(chiefly of a drug) causing abortion.

Traditional folk medicine offered recipes for abortifacient brews of aloes, pennyroyal, and extracts from wild juniper bushes that so poisoned or irritated the system that miscarriages occurred as a side effect.

noun

An abortifacient drug.

She’s worried that his anti-abortion stance will endanger the future availability of abortifacients as over the counter medication, and the future of RU – 486 to be used for other purposes.