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Pro-life movements are those which advocate against the practice of abortion and its legality.
Pro-life may also refer to:
Ideologies and social movements
- Right to life, an ideology encompassing views on abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia
- United States anti-abortion movement, a U.S. social movement opposed to elective abortion
- Anti-abortion feminism, a philosophy of opposition to abortion based on feminism
- Opposition to the death penalty
- Opposition to euthanasia
- Pro-life, opposition to embryonic stem cell destruction; see stem cell controversy
Organisations
- ProLife Alliance, a UK political party
- Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, an American interest group
Other uses
- Pro-life (term), the history of the term itself, particularly as applied to the abortion debate
- Pro-Life (politician), the legal name of an Idaho political candidate formerly known as Marvin Richardson
- "Pro-Life" (Masters of Horror), a 2006 episode of Masters of Horror, set in an abortion clinic
See also
- Culture of life, a broad philosophical opposition to practices destructive of human life, often including abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and capital punishment, among others
- Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, also known as the Pro-Life Amendment
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