antiabortion

See also: anti-abortion

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Etymology

From anti- +‎ abortion.

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antiabortion (comparative more antiabortion, superlative most antiabortion)

  1. Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.
    Synonyms: pro-life, anti-choice
    • 1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime:
      Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.
    • 2001, Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, page 182:
      The news reporters tell us that conservatives are antiabortion, anti–gun control, antidiversity, antienvironment, antieverything.

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