pro-choice

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English

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Etymology

From pro- +‎ choice.

Adjective

pro-choice

  1. (public policy, law, ethics) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
    • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “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.
    • 2022 July 26, Shirley Leung, “Charlie Baker is ‘100% prochoice.’ He shouldn’t veto the new reproductive rights bill.”, in The Boston Globe:
      But if past is prologue, it’s hard to predict what our prochoice Republican governor will do. [] “You’re totally prochoice and bipartisan,” Caroline says in the ad, as they sit together on a park bench surrounded by trees and grass.
  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).
    • 2014, Margaret Somerville, 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, 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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Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pro-choice.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /prɔˈt͡ʂɔjs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔt͡ʂɔjs

Adjective

pro-choice (not comparable, no derived adverb)

  1. (postpositive) pro-choice (supportive of abortion rights)
    Antonym: pro-life

Noun

pro-choice m inan (indeclinable)

  1. pro-choice movement
    Antonym: pro-life

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Indeclinable

or

Noun

pro-choice m pers

  1. pro-choice activist
    Synonym: pro-choicer
    Antonyms: prolajfer, pro-life

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Further reading

  • pro-choice in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pro-choice in Polish dictionaries at PWN