anti-abortionadj.
Opposed to, or legislating against, induced abortion.
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anti-abortion1936
pro-family1938
1936 Discovery 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.
1966 Time 28 Oct. (Atlantic ed.) 38/1 It called for the relaxing of anti-abortion laws.
1984 B. Frishman Amer. Families i. 15 Some ‘pro-family’ activists..noisily pressed their antiabortion and ‘morality’ platform.
1992 Economist 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.
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anti-aˈbortionism n.
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right to life1867
anti-abortionism1976
1976 National Rev. (U.S.) 6 Feb. 64/2, I think it is a mistake to tie anti-abortionism too closely to sex-is-for-procreation.
1989 Washington Post 8 Dec. a19/5 Take away anticommunism and antiabortionism and you have carved out the heart of Republicanism.
anti-aˈbortionist n.
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anti-abortionist1973
1973 Wall St. Jrnl. 2 Aug. 1/1 Mr. Mooney is also a militant antiabortionist.
1989 D. Leavitt Equal Affections 92 She hated the antiabortionists, but she was also cowed by the power of their belief.
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