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right-to-life
[rahyt-tuh-lahyf]
adjective
pertaining to or advocating laws making abortion, especially abortion-on-demand, illegal; antiabortion.
right-to-life advocates.
Other Word Forms
- right-to-lifer noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of right-to-life1
Example Sentences
He had spent his adult life trying to succeed in conservative politics, working with right-to-life groups and other activists, as well as repeatedly running for office and failing.
“I’m a big right-to-life person,” she said.
Immediately, the right-to-life got all their members to call legislators and started threatening the legislators with losing their "ranking."
“We’ve got both right-to-life and pro-choice people on the other side. So it’s not the clear winning issue,” Atkeson said.
Mr. Barber said Southern Baptists oppose abortion on right-to-life grounds: “Our interest with abortion is not — is not to police everybody’s sex life. Our interest with abortion is that we believe that’s a human person who deserves to live.”
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