Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not yet born.
- adjective Not yet appeared; future.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not born; not brought into life; not yet existing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not born; not yet brought into life; being still to appear; future.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not yet
born ; yet to come;future . - adjective not yet
delivered ; stillexisting in themother 'swomb . - adjective existing
without birth orbeginning . - noun countable A
single unborn offspring at anystage ofgestation . - noun uncountable
Unborn offspring collectively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not yet brought into existence
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Examples
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We use the term unborn child because that is what it is ... a child.
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How someone views the "status" of the unborn is the driving factor as to what position they take regarding abortion.
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Bishop Chaput's position that the killing of the unborn is a "non-negotiable" issue, which caused him to remind his audiences that Kerry supports abortion rights and Bush doesn't, unfortunately does not extend to capital punishment, which the Catholic Church also opposes.
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Bishop Chaput's position that the killing of the unborn is a "non-negotiable" issue, which caused him to remind his audiences that Kerry supports abortion rights and Bush doesn't, unfortunately does not extend to capital punishment, which the Catholic Church also opposes.
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Second, the current regime — the Roe v. Wade framework — tells us that the unborn is not a member of the human community and that it is wrong for citizens to try to protect the unborn.
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Reps are not trying to dictate your healthcare, we do not want dems having govt dictate that the unborn is expendable via Obama reform healthcare bill.
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This false morality seems to stop once an unborn is born.
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Bob, Johnsonville, now made with discarded fetuses, wurst says: glamourdammerung saysIn this case, they think “alive” means “unborn” and nothing else. unborn is the opposite of undead.
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Killing the unborn is never in the interest of the God of creation.
AP: Pro-abortion Gov. Kathleen Sebelius tapped to lead HHS 2009
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First, it assumes that the unborn is not a moral subject, for if the unborn is
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