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  • adjective Not yet born.

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pre- +‎ born

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Examples

  • It bans all abortions past 20 weeks based on studies that babies assuredly feel pain at that point, corroborated by emerging protocols requiring surgeons who operate on late-term preborn babies provide them pain relief.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TK 2010

  • It bans all abortions past 20 weeks based on studies that babies assuredly feel pain at that point, corroborated by emerging protocols requiring surgeons who operate on late-term preborn babies provide them pain relief.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] TK 2010

  • More feminist fuming: No mandated contraception coverage in healthcare bills Pro-aborts pull out stops opposing Stupak Amendment in healthcare Shock: TMZ calls preborn's killing a "brutal murder" (8 Comments)

    jillstanek.com 2009

  • Red: In regard to the 'preborn' of Suza's reality, a singleton is the medical reference to one fetus in the womb I'm alone...alone in the wombbbbb as opposed to twins, etc.

    Ladies and gentlemen, our first contestant. CC 2008

  • More interesting is this whole "preborn" notion (this is not bit's idea) - so, I presume that, being rational and all, those who espouse this destruction of preborn humans idea are also 100\% AGAINST ALL sexual acts that do not produce children.

    Think Progress 2009

  • Pregnant women could be sued, subject to child welfare interventions, or even arrested if they engaged in activities at work and at home that might be thought to create a risk to the life of the "preborn."

    Lynn M. Paltrow: PersonhoodUSA: Promoting a Radical, Fetal-Separatist Agenda Lynn M. Paltrow 2010

  • Pregnant women could be sued, subject to child welfare interventions, or even arrested if they engaged in activities at work and at home that might be thought to create a risk to the life of the "preborn."

    Lynn M. Paltrow: PersonhoodUSA: Promoting a Radical, Fetal-Separatist Agenda Lynn M. Paltrow 2010

  • Pregnant women could be sued, subject to child welfare interventions, or even arrested if they engaged in activities at work and at home that might be thought to create a risk to the life of the "preborn."

    Lynn M. Paltrow: PersonhoodUSA: Promoting a Radical, Fetal-Separatist Agenda Lynn M. Paltrow 2010

  • Furthermore, although the pope and his bishops may truly believe a zygote is a "preborn child," the truth is that a great number of active Catholics do not, and they vote, in great numbers, accordingly.

    Michele Somerville: Catholic Bishops Endanger Church Tax Exempt Status Michele Somerville 2011

  • Furthermore, although the pope and his bishops may truly believe a zygote is a "preborn child," the truth is that a great number of active Catholics do not, and they vote, in great numbers, accordingly.

    Michele Somerville: Catholic Bishops Endanger Church Tax Exempt Status Michele Somerville 2011

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