right-to-life
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of right-to-life
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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She cannot imagine donating them to another couple, in effect letting strangers bear and raise her children, a process which many in the right-to-life movement call a “snowflake adoption.”
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022
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
Maher's move was apparently prompted by complaints from some Catholics in his diocese�a center of "right-to-life" activity�about a feminist leader named Jan Gleason.
From Time Magazine Archive
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