Pro-choice

Quick meaning: Pro-choice is an adjective meaning (public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.

Meaning

(public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.

More Meanings

1. (public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to end their life by euthanasia.
2. Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.

Example Sentences

These cases help create and sustain an essentially pro-choice regime, at least with respect to passive euthanasia and arguably with respect to physician-assisted suicide as well.

Whether we are pro-choice on euthanasia or anti-euthanasia, we can all agree that leaving patients in pain is abhorrent, ethically, and morally reprehensible, and should be punished severely by the law.

When I defend my pro-choice position in the debate over abortion in our country, I frequently refer to Romania, where pregnancy could be monitored on behalf of the state, and to China, where it could be forcibly terminated.

But if past is prologue, it’s hard to predict what our prochoice Republican governor will do. […] “You’re totally prochoice and bipartisan,” Caroline says in the ad, as they sit together on a park bench surrounded by trees and grass.

Word Forms

• prochoice

Synonyms for pro-choice

Depending on context, synonyms include proabortion, antilife, prodeath.

Antonyms for pro-choice

Common opposites include anti-choice.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include right-to-life, progun, procontrol, personocentric, progressive, proresearch.

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