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anti-abortion, a.|æntɪəˈbɔːʃən|
Also antiabortion.
[f. anti-1 4 + abortion n.]
Opposed to, or legislating against, induced abortion.
1936Discovery Sept. 300/1 Antagonistic phenomena to population growth are said to be birth control and abortion; remedial measures are anti-contraception and anti-abortion laws and family allowances. 1966Time 28 Oct. (Atlantic ed.) 38/1 It called for the relaxing of anti-abortion laws. 1984B. Frishman Amer. Families i. 15 Some ‘pro-family’ activists..noisily pressed their antiabortion and ‘morality’ platform. 1992Economist 29 Feb. 55/3 In effect, the Irish government persuaded the EC to copper-fasten its anti-abortion law, so as to ensure that EC law could not be invoked at some point in the future to allow abortion in Ireland.
Hence anti-aˈbortionism n., anti-aˈbortionist n.
1973Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Aug. 1/1 Mr. Mooney is also a militant antiabortionist. 1976National Rev. (U.S.) 6 Feb. 64/2, I think it is a mistake to tie anti-abortionism too closely to sex-is-for-procreation. 1989Washington Post 8 Dec. a19/5 Take away anticommunism and antiabortionism and you have carved out the heart of Republicanism. 1989D. Leavitt Equal Affections 92 She hated the antiabortionists, but she was also cowed by the power of their belief. |