pro-choice

See also: prochoice

English

Alternative forms

• prochoice

Etymology

From pro- +‎ choice.

Adjective

pro-choice

1. (public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
   • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Prague Summer”, in Living History‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 354:

     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.

   • 2022 July 26, Shirley Leung, “Charlie Baker is ‘100% prochoice.’ He shouldn’t veto the new reproductive rights bill.”, in The Boston Globe‎^[2]:

     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.

2. (public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to end their life by euthanasia.
   • 1994, Tom Stacy, “Euthanasia and the Supreme Court's Competing Conceptions of Religious Liberty”, in Issues in Law and Medicine, volume 10, number 1, page 62:

     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.

   • 1998, C. G. Prado, The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age, page 103:

     Two other sites worthy of note are http://www.efn.org/~ergo/ (Pro-Choice) and http://www.euthanasia.com (Pro-Life).

     [Note: Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO) was a euthanasia support group; euthanasia.com is an anti-euthanasia website.]

   • 2014, Margaret Somerville, Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide‎^[3], 2nd edition, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     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.

3. Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.
   • 2010, Sara Hayden, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice, page 102:

     Individualism, self-determination, and pro-choice rhetorics are additional cultural discourses that play into this experience as well: the ability to make your own choices in life and to be able to succeed with those choices is the quintessential American dream.

Synonyms

• proabortion
• (derogatory) antilife
• (derogatory) prodeath

Antonyms

• anti-choice

Derived terms

• pro-choicer

Translations

supportive of abortion rights

• French: pro-choix (fr)
• Georgian: არჩევანის მომხრე (arčevanis momxre)
• Polish: pro-choice (pl)

See also

• pro-life

References

• “pro-choice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pro-choice.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɔˈt͡ʂɔjs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt͡ʂɔjs

Adjective

pro-choice (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (postpositive) pro-choice (supportive of abortion rights)

   Antonym: pro-life

Noun

pro-choice m inan (indeclinable)

1. pro-choice movement

   Antonym: pro-life

Declension

Indeclinable

or

Declension of pro-choice

	singular
nominative	pro-choice
genitive	pro-choice'u
dative	pro-choice'owi
accusative	pro-choice
instrumental	pro-choice'em
locative	pro-choisie
vocative	pro-choisie

Noun

pro-choice m pers

1. pro-choice activist

   Synonym: pro-choicer

   Antonyms: prolajfer, pro-life

Declension

Declension of pro-choice

	singular	plural
nominative	pro-choice	pro-choice'owie/pro-choice'y (deprecative)
genitive	pro-choice'a	pro-choice'ów
dative	pro-choice'owi	pro-choice'om
accusative	pro-choice'a	pro-choice'ów
instrumental	pro-choice'em	pro-choice'ami
locative	pro-choisie	pro-choice'ach
vocative	pro-choisie	pro-choice'owie/pro-choice'y (deprecative)

Related terms

nouns

• pro-choicer

 

Further reading

• pro-choice in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pro-choice in Polish dictionaries at PWN