antiabortion

[an-tee-uh-bawr-shuhn, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. opposed to abortion or the legalization of abortion.

noun

1. opposition to abortion, especially legalized abortion.

Other Word Forms

• antiabortionist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of antiabortion¹

First recorded in 1965–70; anti- + abortion

Example Sentences

Newsom employed a similar strategy when he demolished the Republican-led recall campaign against him in 2021, which the governor portrayed as a “life and death” battle against “Trumpism” and far-right anti-vaccine and antiabortion activists.

From Los Angeles Times

Chretien also touted the administration’s “unequivocal rejection of gender ideology extremism” and renewed membership in the Geneva Consensus Declaration, an antiabortion document signed by more than 30 countries, including Russia, Hungary, Saudi Arabia and South Sudan.

From Salon

Another pitfall is that subplots featuring abortion storylines are hard to pull off without feeling like a break from scheduled programming for an antiabortion or pro-abortion-rights PSA, or worse, a pointless exercise in bothsidesism.

From Los Angeles Times

The Supreme Court upheld access to the drug for early pregnancies under previous FDA regulations last year, but it has remained a target of antiabortion conservatives.

From Los Angeles Times

At the Senate hearing, Kennedy cited “new data” from a flawed report pushed by antiabortion groups — and not published in any peer-reviewed journal — to question the safety of mifepristone, calling the report “alarming.”

From Los Angeles Times