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- noun Someone who espouses a position of supporting
right-to-life (anti-abortion ).
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Examples
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No, Drake shot Pouillon for displaying a gory sign near a high school, not for being a right-to-lifer.
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No, Drake shot Pouillon for displaying a gory sign near a high school, not for being a right-to-lifer.
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(When was the last time you read of a right-to-lifer taking a shot at a fertility clinic doc or harassing women going in to one to have their eggs fertilized and frozen -- of which some will almost certainly be destroyed later?)
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Plus, what a creep; he campaigns as a right-to-lifer, but pays for his girlfriend's abortion?
Bizarre Abortion Tale May Make It Easier For Dems To Hold Key House Seat 2009
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That we oppose what one right-to-lifer whom I spoke to the other day called "the chopping up of little babies," but when an uninsured woman wants to give her baby up for adoption — or carry it to term and keep it herself — we can't figure out how to pay for her prenatal care?
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Now he risks causing a revolt if he fails to pick a right-to-lifer.
The Bush Court 2008
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As the daughter of a religiously based female right-to-lifer myself, that feels especially icky.
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Plus, given that the population explosion is arguably as important a factor to address as greenhouse gas emissions, choosing a right-to-lifer running mate further undermines his climate credibility.
Still Raging at 100 against Weapons, War and the Dying of the Light 2008
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Once a fuzzy moderate on abortion, he's running as a full-throated right-to-lifer this time.
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If Bush nominates a right-to-lifer, it will make the 1987 confirmation struggle over Reagan nominee Judge Robert Bork "look like kindergarten class," vowed Kate Michelman of NARAL. In recent decades the Senate generally has not spurned a president's choice for the high court unless the nominee was somehow morally deficient or plainly unqualified.
The Bush Court 2008
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