pro-choice

pro-choice
adjective
advocating a woman's right to control her own body (especially her right to an induced abortion)
• Ant: ↑pro-life

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/proh choys"/, adj.
supporting or advocating legalized abortion. Also, prochoice. Cf. pro-life.
[1970-75]

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pro-choiceˈ adjective
(denoting the lobby) upholding or supporting the right of a woman to have an abortion
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Main Entry: ↑pro-

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pro-choice UK US adjective
believing that pregnant women should be allowed to decide whether or not to have an abortion
Thesaurus: pregnancy and having a babyhyponym

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pro-choice «PROH CHOYS», adjective.
supporting the right to choose abortion to terminate a pregnancy: »

People who believe abortion should be legal and available call themselves pro-choice (New York Daily News). Pro-choice supporters look toward a society in which children are conceived by choice, not by chance (Harper's).

–pro´-choic´er, noun.

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[prō'chois]
(also prochoice) adj. advocating legalized abortion

a pro-choice demonstration. Compare with pro-life

Derivatives:
pro-choicer n.

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/proʊˈʧoıs/ adj
: believing that pregnant women should have the right to choose to have an abortion

pro-choice supporters/groups

The governor has taken a pro-choice position. = The governor is pro-choice.

— compare ↑pro-life

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ˌpro-ˈchoice f134 [pro-choice] adjective
believing that a pregnant woman should be able to choose to have an ↑abortion if she wants

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pro-choice activists

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a pro-choice stand on abortion


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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