antiabortion

antiabortion

See also: anti-abortion

English

Alternative forms

• anti-abortion

Etymology

anti- +‎ abortion

Adjective

antiabortion (comparative more antiabortion, superlative most antiabortion)

1. Opposed to the practice or legalization of abortion.
   • 1996, Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime

     Antiabortion activists pointed out that immigrant families, many of them Catholic, were larger and would soon outpopulate native-born white Yankees and threaten their political power.

Synonyms

• pro-life, antichoice

Derived terms

• antiabortionist
• anti-abortionism

Translations

opposed to the practice of abortion

Finnish: abortinvastainen French: anti-avortement (fr) Italian: antiaborto

Portuguese: antiaborto Spanish: antiaborto

See also

• proabortion