anti-abortionism

See also: antiabortionism

English

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Etymology

anti-abortion +‎ -ism

Noun

anti-abortionism (uncountable)

  1. An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion.
    • 1991, Mary Nash, “Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain”, in Gisela Bock, Pat Thane, editors, Maternity & Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States 1880s-1950s, Routledge, published 1994, →ISBN, page 168:
      Anti-abortionism became crucial in the protection of births and population growth and thus a key element in the social policy of the New State.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anti-abortionism.

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