Abortion Flashcards

1
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Tomber enceinte

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To become pregnant

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2
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Être enceinte de 6 semaines

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To be 6 weeks pregnant

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3
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Passer une échographie

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To have an ultrasound (scan)

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4
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Un test de grossesse

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A pregnancy test

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5
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En âge de procréer

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Of childbearing age

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6
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L’utérus

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Womb (wum) , uterus

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7
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La maternité

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Motherhood

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8
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Droits des femmes en matière de reproduction

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Women’s reproductive rights

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9
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Un embryon

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An embryo

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10
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Un avortement

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An abortion

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11
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Une IVG

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A termination of pregnancy

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12
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Se faire avorter

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To have an abortion

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13
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Avorter d’un bébé non désiré

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To abort an unwanted baby

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14
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Pratiquer l’avortement

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To carry out abortions

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15
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Avortement clandestin

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Backstreet abortion

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16
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Une maternite

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A maternity hospital

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17
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Un gynécologue

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A gynecologist

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18
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Une sage femme

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A midwife

19
Q

Avortement que l’on a provoqué soi même

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Self-induced abortion

20
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Une naissance

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A birth

21
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La taux de naissance

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The birth rate

22
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Un prématuré

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A premature baby

23
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Une couveuse

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An incubator

24
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Faire une fausse couche

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To have a miscarriage

25
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Mourir en couches

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To die in childbirth

26
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Un enfant mort né

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A stillborn baby

27
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Un moyen de contraception

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A means of contraception

28
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Le planning familial

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Family planning

29
Q

La pilule du lendemain

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The morning-after pill

30
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Un contraceptif

A

A contraceptive

31
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Un préservatif

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A condom

32
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Un stérilet

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A coil, an intra-uterine device (IUD)

33
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Une polémique

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A controversy

34
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Un problème controverse

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A controversial/contentious issue

35
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L’avortement divisé l’opinion

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Abortion is a divisive issue

36
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L’opinion est divisée

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The public are split

37
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Un probleme sensible

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A hot-button issue

38
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Le lobby des opposants à l’avortement

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The pro-life lobby

39
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Être contre l’avortement

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To oppose abortion

40
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Un militant contre l’avortement / un militant pour le droit à l’avortement

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A pro-life campaigner, a pro-lifer

A pro-choice activist

41
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Être en faveur de l’avortement

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To be pro-choice

42
Q

Légaliser l’avortement

Interdire l’avortement

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To legalise abortion

To ban, to outlaw abortion

43
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Qu’a déclaré Pat Buchanan (candidat à l’élection présidentielle US) à propos de la situation des États Unis ? Quand ?
À quoi cela fait référence ?

A

Pat Buchanan introduced the phrase “culture wars” in 1992.
Culture wars in the USA : abortion, homosexuality, recreational drug use, access to gun…
They are being fought bet. conservatives (traditionalists) and progressives (liberals)

44
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Quelle est la situation des femmes auj dans le sud des EU ?

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Pro life lobby –> powerful in the “Bible belt of the South of the USA “, it is doing its best to make abortion less easily accessible.
Some clinics whose funding has been slashed by cuts in family planning have had to shut down, in effect making abortion as difficult to obtain as if it were illegal.
The price for abortion can reach thousands of dollar bec of a long trip to find abortion clinic
Back alley procedures are likely to become a lot more common, and the number of accidental deaths will rise