pro-choice

See also: prochoice

English

Etymology

pro- +‎ choice

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pro-choice

  1. (public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
    • 2003, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, “Prague Summer”, in Living History‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 354:
      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.
  2. (public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to end their life by euthanasia.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1998, C. G. Prado, The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age, page 103:
      Two other sites worthy of note are http://www.efn.org/~ergo/ (Pro-Choice) and http://www.euthanasia.com (Pro-Life).
      [Note: Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO) was a euthanasia support group; euthanasia.com is an anti-euthanasia website.]
    • 2014, Somerville, Margaret, Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide‎, 2nd edition, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:
      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.
  3. Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, self-ownership, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.
    • 2010, Sara Hayden, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice, page 102:
      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.

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