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by belorn 3781 days ago
Abortion pills is not the correct translation of "dagenefterpiller". A literally translation from Swedish to English would be the day-after-pill, but the correct English term would be the morning-after pill, which has the technical name emergency postcoital contraception.

Abortion pills is used to trigger an abortion, or to use the other common term, induced miscarriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_abortion

1 comments

Thanks for the correction, I'm not really well-versed in that area (should have asked the missus!)

Tack!