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pro-life
[proh-lahyf] 
–adjective
| opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life. |
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| pro-life (prō-līf') adj. Advocating the legal protection of human embyos and fetuses, especially by favoring the outlawing of abortion on the ground that it is the taking of a human life. pro-lif'er n. |
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pro-life
"opposed to abortion," first attested 1976, from pro- + life. Hostile alternative anti-choice is first attested 1978 in Ms. magazine (see pro-choice).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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