pro-life
[proh-lahyf]
- opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
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Compare pro-choice.
Origin of pro-life
First recorded in 1960–65
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Some pro-life groups worry that they discourage women from staying pregnant altogether.
He co-authored the amicus brief filed on behalf of 23 pro-life groups.
If you are pro-life in Missouri it means being so without deviation, Molendorp says.
Capps, the pro-life volunteer, insists the new law gives women much-needed time to make a decision.
Contraception is not abortion, and those who misunderstand this subject do harm to the pro-life cause.
pro-life
- (of an organization, pressure group, etc) supporting the right to life of the unborn; against abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
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Word Origin and History for pro-life
adj.
"opposed to abortion," first attested 1976, from pro- + life. Hostile alternative anti-choice attested 1978 in Ms. magazine (see pro-choice).
What hypocrisy to call such anti-humanitarian people 'pro-life.' Call them what they are -- antichoice. ["Ms.," Oct. 8, 1978]
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