Which term describes the intentional termination of pregnancy through drugs or surgery?

• A. Therapeutic abortions
• B. Quickening
• C. Viability
• D. Induced abortion

Answer: (D)

The concept being tested is the term for deliberately ending a pregnancy. Induced abortion is the general medical term for this action, whether it’s carried out with medications or through a surgical procedure. It covers the intentional termination of pregnancy in a broad sense, and is the standard umbrella term used in medical and public-health contexts.

Quickening refers to the point at which a pregnant person first feels fetal movements, not to termination. Viability describes the fetus’s ability to survive outside the uterus, which is not about how pregnancies are terminated. Therapeutic abortions describe abortions performed for medical reasons (for the mother’s health or other medical indications), but that is a subset of induced abortions.

So the best term for the described concept is induced abortion.