anti-abortionism

See also: antiabortionism

English

Alternative forms

• antiabortionism

Etymology

anti-abortion +‎ -ism

Noun

anti-abortionism (uncountable)

1. An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion.
   • 1991, Mary Nash, "Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain", in Maternity & Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States 1880s-1950s (eds. Gisela Bock & Pat Thane), Routledge (1994), →ISBN, page 168:

     Anti-abortionism became crucial in the protection of births and population growth and thus a key element in the social policy of the New State.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anti-abortionism.

Synonyms

• pro-lifeism