Dictionary

pro-deather en · NOUN

Etymology

From pro-death + -er.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, uncommon) A person who is supportive of the practice or legality of abortion or who is opposed to “pro-life” causes.
   • Without realizing it, the pro-deathers and the police together end up closing the clinic down, thus preventing aboritons on that day, all to avoid violence! 1995 February 21, Angie Miller, “Church Will Always Have PR Problems with World”, in Liberty Champion, Lynchburg, Virginia, retrieved 19 Nov 2022, page 13:
   • a. 2013, “Euthanasia Pro-Deather Spills the Beans”, Pro-Life Victoria, archived from the original on October 26, 2022.
   • Recently our local abortion rights fund received a piece of mail enjoining “pro-lifers” to “attack” abortion providers and other “peddlers of death. . . . When we shoot, we should aim for the lower spine and the buttocks. At this time we probably don’t need to kill to discourage some pro-deathers from implementing their agenda.” 1998, Marlene Gerber Fried, “Abortion in the United States – Legal but Inaccessible”, in Rickie Solinger, editor, Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950–2000, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 209:

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Antonyms

pro-lifer