Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Favoring the outlawing of abortion on the ground that it is the taking of a human life; pro-life.
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- adjective Describing an anti-
abortion political position.
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Examples
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The National Right to Life Committee was originally created by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the President of the National Right to Life Committee has a platform and megaphone that extends far beyond the NRLC federation of 50 state right-to-life organizations and 3,000 local chapters nationwide.
Ellen R. Shaffer: Um, the Other Thing About Komen and Planned Parenthood... Ellen R. Shaffer 2012
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The National Right to Life Committee was originally created by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the President of the National Right to Life Committee has a platform and megaphone that extends far beyond the NRLC federation of 50 state right-to-life organizations and 3,000 local chapters nationwide.
Ellen R. Shaffer: Um, the Other Thing About Komen and Planned Parenthood... Ellen R. Shaffer 2012
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Asked whether the health care issue affects her view of Romney, Spence said, I supported him last time--and there was the health-insurance and right-to-life stuff then.
Jason Salzman: Former CO supporters of Romney have differing views on whether to support him now Jason Salzman 2011
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The National Right to Life Committee was originally created by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the President of the National Right to Life Committee has a platform and megaphone that extends far beyond the NRLC federation of 50 state right-to-life organizations and 3,000 local chapters nationwide.
Ellen R. Shaffer: Um, the Other Thing About Komen and Planned Parenthood... Ellen R. Shaffer 2012
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A primary goal of the American Constitution Party is the election of a right-to-life president who will declare Roe vs. Wade unconstitutional as "a violation of states 'rights."
Michele Swenson: Tancredo Candidacy a Symptom of Degraded Politics, the Race to the Right and to the Bottom Michele Swenson 2010
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Asked whether the health care issue affects her view of Romney, Spence said, I supported him last time--and there was the health-insurance and right-to-life stuff then.
Jason Salzman: Former CO supporters of Romney have differing views on whether to support him now Jason Salzman 2011
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In previous national elections, abortion and related right-to-life issues played a major role in the voting behavior of many American Catholics.
Donald P. Kommers: Catholic Social Thought and the 2010 Election Donald P. Kommers 2010
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By the early 1990s, mirroring the growth of the American anti-choice movement, tapes of Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart had already aired on Russian television, while a right-to-life conference in Moscow boasted five hundred attendees.
Merle Hoffman: The Opening of a Russian Front in the Abortion Wars Merle Hoffman 2011
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In 1985, then-Planned Parenthood of America chairman Allan Rosenfield called the film "the most powerful thing the right-to-life movement has put out."
Bernard Nathanson, abortion doctor who became anti-abortion advocate, dies at 84 2011
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A primary goal of the American Constitution Party is the election of a right-to-life president who will declare Roe vs. Wade unconstitutional as "a violation of states 'rights."
Michele Swenson: Tancredo Candidacy a Symptom of Degraded Politics, the Race to the Right and to the Bottom Michele Swenson 2010
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