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pro-life

pro-life

5.9
Against legal abortion and supporting laws to protect unborn babies
  • adjective
  • /ˈproʊˌlaɪf/
translation icon : provida
  • So what we're seeing is a new consensus after Roe was overturned and pro-life people got what they wanted.

They're basically moving through politically with the support of pro-life groups backing them up.

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Examples

  • They're basically moving through politically with the support of pro-life groups backing them up.

  • You know, are you pro-life or pro-choice?

  • But overall, big picture, he is pro-life, right?

  • I used to be a pro-life feminist.

  • But what I've told people is he had the most pro-life record ever.

  • If you are pro-life, if you're helping life, life helps you back or at least doesn't resist you, right?

  • Deeply Catholic, deeply Catholic, very engaged Catholics, but pro-life, social justice Catholics.

  • Many organizations advocate for pro-life policies to protect the rights of the unborn.

  • As a pro-life activist, she participates in rallies to support legal restrictions on abortion.

  • In debates about reproductive rights, he proudly identifies as pro-life.

Antonyms

Supporting a woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion

How Pro-life

pro-lifer
6.9
pro-life
5.9

Surface Forms

pro-life positive

Morphology

pro-life = life (semi-transparent) = pro + life

The meaning of 'pro-' plus 'life' is partly clear as 'in favor of life', but the specific established political sense about abortion is not fully predictable from the parts alone.

Etymology

The word pro-life comes from the part pro- meaning 'for' and the word life, so it literally means 'for life'. So, people who describe themselves as pro-life want laws to protect unborn babies and oppose abortion.