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The term pro-choice entered currency after pro-life and was coined by those who supported legal abortion as a response to the success of the pro-life branding. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The first use of the term cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is in a 1969 issue of the California daily newspaper the Oxnard Press-Courier , which referred to "Pro-choice ...
The abortion debate is a longstanding and contentious discourse that touches on the moral, legal, medical, and religious aspects of induced abortion. [1] In English-speaking countries, the debate has two major sides, commonly referred to as the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" movements.
In a 2009 Gallup Poll, a majority of U.S. adults (51%) called themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion—for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995—while 42% identified themselves as "pro-choice", [80] although pro-choice groups noted that acceptance of the "pro-life" label did not in all cases indicate opposition ...
The irony is not lost on me that this anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision comes just two days after the inauguration of the man who triggered its downfall: Donald Trump. Since the conservative ...
Abortion has become a driving issue in getting voters to cast ballots in local and state elections on Tuesday
Six months ago I wrote about how Donald Trump was supposedly in trouble on the issue of abortion. High-profile members of the pro-life community were threatening to abandon him. Consequently ...
The abortion debate most commonly relates to the induced abortion of a pregnancy, which is also how the term "abortion" is used in a legal sense. [nb 1] The terms "elective abortion" and "voluntary abortion" refer to the interruption of pregnancy, before viability, at the request of the woman but not for medical reasons. [39]
In the United States, the National Right to Life Committee is the largest right-to-life organization. [3] The right-to-life movement is often associated with Christianity (especially Catholicism) and the Republican Party, but groups such as Secular Pro-Life and Democrats for Life of America hold anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia views for other ...