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pro-choice en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From pro- + choice.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:public policy) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
   • 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. 2022 July 26, Shirley Leung, “Charlie Baker is ‘100% prochoice.’ He shouldn’t veto the new reproductive rights bill.”, in The Boston Globe:
   • 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. 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Prague Summer”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 354:
2. (qualifier:public policy) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to end their life by euthanasia.
   • 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. 2014, Margaret Somerville, Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, 2nd edition, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:
   • 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. 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:
   • Two other sites worthy of note are http://www.efn.org/~ergo/ (Pro-Choice) and http://www.euthanasia.com (Pro-Life). 1998, C. G. Prado, The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age, page 103:
3. Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.
   • 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. 2010, Sara Hayden, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice, page 102:

Forms

Antonyms

anti-choice

Deriveds

pro-choicer

Relateds

pro-life

Synonyms

proabortion · prodeath · antilife

Translations (3)

ka არჩევანის მომხრე (supportive of abortion rights) · pl pro-choice (supportive of abortion rights) · fr pro-choix (supportive of abortion rights)