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Predetermined Abortion 

An abortion that is predetermined. Specifically when someone gets pregnant, it is already determined that the baby will be aborted.
Oh you were pregnant? Did you give your kid a predetermined abortion???
Predetermined Abortion by Dbcw June 10, 2025

Fallacy of the predetermined outcome 

A phrase frequently used by Yankees announcer Michael Kay to refer to the flawed logic behind thinking that event x is set in stone and would have happened regardless of all events leading up to it.
Michael kay:” You don’t want to fall victim to the fallacy of the predetermined outcome, but you have to wonder how things are different if the umpire called that pitch a strike.”

social predeterminism 

The belief that a person does not have any control over their social standing and will die in the same social class he was born.
Taking the cyclical pattern of poverty, some sociologists take that as a sign of social predeterminism.
social predeterminism by Hosang Lee September 17, 2007