antiabortion

See also: anti-abortion

English

Alternative forms

• anti-abortion

Etymology

From anti- +‎ abortion.

Adjective

antiabortion (comparative more antiabortion, superlative most antiabortion)

1. Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.

   Synonyms: pro-life, anti-choice

   • 1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime:

     Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.

   • 2001, Gordon K. Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist, page 182:

     The news reporters tell us that conservatives are antiabortion, anti–gun control, antidiversity, antienvironment, antieverything.

Derived terms

• antiabortionist
• anti-abortionism

Translations

opposed to the practice of abortion

• Catalan: antiavortista m or f
• Finnish: abortinvastainen
• French: anti-avortement (fr)
• Galician: antiabortista m or f, antiaborto m or f
• German: Anti-Abtreibungs-
• Hungarian: abortuszellenes
• Italian: antiaborto, antiabortista (it) m or f
• Polish: antyaborcyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: antiaborto, antiabortista m or f
• Spanish: antiaborto, antiabortista

See also

• proabortion