pro-life

From pro- +‎ life.

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pro-life (comparative more pro-life, superlative most pro-life)

1. Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.
   2. (chiefly US) Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.

      Synonym: anti-abortion

      They were pro-life except in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the life or health of the mother.

   3. (specifically) Opposed to the legalization of euthanasia.
   4. (specifically) Opposed to the legalization of capital punishment.
      • 2005, Guerrilla Apologetics for Life Issues, page 60:
   5. (specifically) Opposed to suicide.
      • 2016, Jennings Brown, The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum‎^[1]:

        Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.

• (derogatory) antichoice

• anti-life
• pro-death

• consistent life ethic

• pro-lifer
• pro-lifeism

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Unadapted borrowing from English pro-life.

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈlajf/
• Rhymes: -ajf
• Syllabification: pro‧life

pro-life (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (postpositive) pro-life (opposed to abortion)

   Antonym: pro-choice

pro-life m inan (indeclinable)

1. antiabortion movement

   Synonym: ruch antyaborcyjny

   Antonym: pro-choice

Indeclinable

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pro-life m pers

1. pro-life activist

   Synonym: prolajfer

   Antonyms: pro-choice, pro-choicer

• pro-life I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pro-life II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pro-life in Polish dictionaries at PWN