pro-life

English

Etymology

pro- +‎ life

Adjective

pro-life (comparative more pro-life, superlative most pro-life)

1. Of, pertaining to, or supportive of the right to life; believing that life should be protected from its beginning to natural death in all or most circumstances.
   2. (chiefly US) Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.

      Synonym: anti-abortion

      They were pro-life except in cases of rape, incest, or risk to the life or health of the mother.

   3. (specifically) Opposed to the legalization of euthanasia.
   4. (specifically) Opposed to the legalization of capital punishment.
      • 2005, Guerrilla Apologetics for Life Issues, page 60:
   5. (specifically) Opposed to suicide.
      • 2016, Jennings Brown, The sordid history of the first sanctioned suicide forum‎^[1]:

        Suicidal people can have discussions about suicide on pro-life peer-to-peer forums and hotlines without fear of judgment or intervention.

Synonyms

• (derogatory) antichoice

Antonyms

• anti-life
• pro-death

Hypernyms

• consistent life ethic

Derived terms

• pro-lifer
• pro-lifeism

Translations

believing that life should be protected

• Spanish: provida

opposed to abortion

• Finnish: abortinvastainen
• French: anti-avortement (fr)
• German: Anti-Abtreibungs-
• Polish: pro-life (pl)
• Portuguese: pró-vida
• Spanish: provida, antiabortista

See also

• pro-birth
• pro-choice
• right to choose

 

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pro-life.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈlajf/
• Rhymes: -ɔlajf

Adjective

pro-life (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (postpositive) pro-life (opposed to abortion)

   Antonym: pro-choice

Noun

pro-life m inan (indeclinable)

1. antiabortion movement

   Synonym: ruch antyaborcyjny

   Antonym: pro-choice

Declension

Indeclinable

or

Declension of pro-life

	singular
nominative	pro-life
genitive	pro-life'u
dative	pro-life'owi
accusative	pro-life
instrumental	pro-life'em
locative	pro-lifie
vocative	pro-lifie

Noun

pro-life m pers

1. pro-life activist

   Synonym: prolajfer

   Antonyms: pro-choice, pro-choicer

Declension

Declension of pro-life

	singular	plural
nominative	pro-life	pro-life'owie/pro-life'y (deprecative)
genitive	pro-life'a	pro-life'ów
dative	pro-life'owi	pro-life'om
accusative	pro-life'a	pro-life'ów
instrumental	pro-life'em	pro-life'ami
locative	pro-lifie	pro-life'ach
vocative	pro-lifie	pro-life'owie/pro-life'y (deprecative)

Related terms

nouns

• prolajfer

 

Further reading

• pro-life I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pro-life II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pro-life in Polish dictionaries at PWN