pro-life

[proh-lahyf]

adjective

1. opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.

pro-life

adjective

1. (of an organization, pressure group, etc) supporting the right to life of the unborn; against abortion, experiments on embryos, etc

Other Word Forms

• pro-lifer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pro-life¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

There were pro-life members who refused to allow abortion coverage, progressives who wanted a public option and conservative senators who wanted less coverage and regulation.

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A big question is how much a government wants to spend, and how deeply it wants to adopt a purely pro-life position, to keep people who want to live alive.

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“I’m just looking to do something because, you know, pro-life,” he said.

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"I think this is very pro-life," he said.

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Someone who says ‘I’m against abortion, but I’m in favor of the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States’—I don’t know if that’s pro-life.”

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