Definitions

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  • adjective US, politics, derogatory pro-choice
  • adjective sometimes derogatory Supporting capital punishment in a particular case or in general.
  • adjective biochemistry triggering cell death

Etymologies

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pro- +‎ death

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Examples

  • I caught a glimpse of a news story on your Supreme Court nomination and I feared that you had had the bad taste to insult our war dead by picking a prodeath Supreme Court nominee on Memorial Day.

    Dear Mr. Obama: Thanks for not Killing Us on Memorial Day nissa_amas_katoj 2009

  • I caught a glimpse of a news story on your Supreme Court nomination and I feared that you had had the bad taste to insult our war dead by picking a prodeath Supreme Court nominee on Memorial Day.

    Archive 2009-05-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009

  • These Republicans try to do the bait and switch on you, ... they would love to have the argument be prolife vs prodeath.

    Romney Clarifies Shifting Views On Abortion -- Sort Of 2009

  • Are they serving the Catholic church or serving the liberal democratic party in trying to reshape this country demographically to elect more liberal democrats who push thier prodeath, prohomosexual agenda?

    Some times I wonder Dymphna 2009

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