Should I avoid using "abort" in favor of its synonyms?

I've heard that the term "abort" could have a negative meaning in some contexts (i.e. due to abortion-related issues), and for that reason it was avoided in some interfaces of the 80's/90's, probably after the popularization of DOS' famous Abort/Retry/Fail.

I do not recall if this issue happened in English-speaking countries, or in other countries where the word "abort" was more strongly associated with abortion than computing (and the software was not translated).

In any case, does it still hold, at least in English-speaking countries? Should I prefer using "cancel", or "terminate", even when the term "abort" seems to better fit the intended operation?