Definitions

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  • adjective Supportive of the practice and/or legalization of abortion.

Etymologies

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pro- +‎ abortion

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Examples

  • In an attempt to moderate its "proabortion" image, the National Abortion Rights Action League has a new ad campaign that encourages adoption and stresses pregnancy prevention, declaring its goal is "to make abortion less necessary."

    The Gop's Civil War Over Abortion 2008

  • Bernard Nathanson writes that, before his conversion from proabortion advocate to champion of human life, he and his colleagues worked hard to convince people that it is impossible to determine when human life begins by insisting that it is a moral, theological, or philosophical question, not a scientific one.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • If someone tells me that Senator Kennedy repented of his proabortion rights stance, then I am delighted to say that that is a "sign of repentance".

    Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral 2009

  • It does not seem to me that they can be, because they seem to be the same activities he engaged in when he vocally maintained his proabortion rights position.

    Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral 2009

  • But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance.

    Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral 2009

  • The success of the proabortion movement depended on diverting the public's attention from the fact that induced abortion is the direct killing of an innocent human being.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • Fr. Jenkins 'comment would make sense if abortion were not such a fundamental violation of human rights, such a fundamental contravention of the purpose of government, such a grave and widespread attack on the most vulnerable of human beings, and Barrack Obama were not so prominent a supporter of the proabortion rights position.

    Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame 2009

  • I was addressing the issue of whether his deathbed activities that I read about could meaningfully be described as signs of repentance for his proabortion rights stance.

    Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral 2009

  • They should simply ask themselves how some Catholics (and other Christians) today wind up honoring proabortion rights politicians.

    Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame 2009

  • From what I have seen I can be expected to conclude, contrary to what I am fortunate to know from other sources, that a proabortion rights stance publicly maintained by an internationally prominent Catholic is not manifestly gravely sinful.

    Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral 2009

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