right-to-life
Americanadjective
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Origin of right-to-life
First recorded in 1970–75
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By the mid-2000s, however, other conservative attorneys and movements sometimes took the lead in major campaign finance cases and pursued a different tactical plan than the one favored by right-to-life litigators.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2022
I visited the 50,000-square-foot Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, took an "Evangelism Explosion" course, joined congregations at numerous megachurches for Sunday worship and participated in right-to-life retreats.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2021
A right-to-life group found Rogers a lawyer, John Kiyonaga, who wanted her to ask Orellana Garcia what he wanted.
From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2021
Diane Coleman, the founder of Not Dead Yet, a right-to-life advocacy group that once picketed Dr. Kevorkian’s home in Royal Oak, a Detroit suburb, attacked his approach.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2011
"In all the years I've known Sarah and her parents, we never talked about right-to-life or any of that," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
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