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单词 anti-abortion
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Definition of anti-abortion in English:

anti-abortion

adjectiveantɪəˈbɔːʃ(ə)n
  • Opposing or legislating against medically induced abortion.

    反对(或立法反对)人工流产的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Although Britain has a vocal anti-abortion lobby opposed to embryo research, it is very much in the minority.
    • Ministers hope the move will reduce the number of teenage pregnancies but anti-abortion campaigners have fiercely opposed the changes.
    • Does the anti-abortion lobby demand that a pregnancy continue if the mother's life is in danger?
    • This has caused widespread opposition from the anti-abortion lobby.
    • She said the anti-abortion movement's ultimate aim was to make all abortion a crime.
    • I rattled and sang to detoxify the current of anger the anti-abortion marchers projected.
    • Even to those who are anti-abortion, I feel there are always situations in which abortion cannot possibly be classified as murder.
    • That he did not prioritize his opposition to abortion drew criticism from some within the anti-abortion movement.
    • But this is an image used by the anti-abortion lobby and it generates heat in an emotive area.
    • For example, at anti-abortion rallies you always hear the phrase ‘abortion is murder’.
    • She does not, for example, have problems with anti-abortion activists displaying the results of late abortions.
    • The use of images of fetuses has generally been a favoured tactic of the anti-abortion lobby.
    • Some anti-abortion groups believe that life begins at conception and prevention of implantation is murder.
    • The anti-abortion protesters who block clinics would also qualify.
    • In Montana, an anti-abortion bill was introduced requiring death certificates for fetuses.
    • The anti-abortion lobby argues that a fetus is a person who is entitled to civil rights.
    • This constant reference to the foetus as a baby has become common coin for the anti-abortion lobby.
    • Legalizing abortion didn't make anti-abortion advocates accept it.
    • However, this film presents such a sanitised version of amateur abortion that it is in effect powerful fodder for the anti-abortion lobby.
    • All dilemmas can be resolved, say the anti-abortion lobby, if the starting point is the foetus rather than the woman.

Derivatives

  • anti-abortionist

  • adjective & nounˌantɪəˈbɔːʃənɪst
    • According to anti-abortionists, pregnancy is sacred and mustn't be tampered with, but many of their opponents have overlooked the wedge that this drives between a mother and her fetus.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is supposed to reassure critics that certain groups, like anti-abortionists, will not grab control of hospitals.
      • For both the abortion rights movement and anti-abortionists, members of Congress could prove amenable to restricting access to abortion.
      • Many anti-abortionists claim that late-term abortion is unadulterated murder because the fetus could survive outside of the womb.
      • Yet how many anti-abortionists advocate contraception to prevent a pregnancy rather than having an abortion?
      • In my latest academic upload here I look at the claim by anti-abortionists that they are ‘pro-life’ and find it to be an overgeneralization.
      • If, as anti-abortionists believe, abortion is taking a life for convenience, does this not open the door for Euthanasia or the killing of the mentally handicapped?
      • The desire by anti-abortionists to make abortion illegal is an unending dispute.
      • Lawyers on opposing sides - representing either stringent anti-abortionists or abortion doctors - have been given until today to reach a compromise.
      • The one thing that rankles me is, seeing all these anti-abortionists rallying, how can they judge who should be allowed abortions and who should not, surely this is the choice of the girl or/and their partners, and solely their choice.
      • Now before the hippies get excited about all this empowerment and coming together, let's not forget that, say, neo-nazis and anti-abortionists form tribes too.
      • Developments in this area have come to the fore in the arguments of those who have a ‘problem’ with abortion - and what is striking is that often such people are not anti-abortionists in the traditional sense.
      • If the anti-abortionist can show that the foetus is a person, then ‘you mustn't kill people’ becomes a good reason not to allow abortion - although it's also, on the face of it, a good reason not to allow capital punishment.
      • But there isn't much that's more hypocritical than anti-abortionists murdering, and it disgusts me that in their moral universe and mine, some points overlap.
      • Thousands of anti-abortionists rallied outside the high court in Washington on Monday in their annual rally calling for the overturning of a woman's right to choose.
      • As their total opposition to abortion has made little popular impact, the anti-abortionists are instead focusing on restricting women's access to abortion.
      • She is forced by her parents to have an abortion, then meets a family of anti-abortionists during her odyssey.
      • That policy, she says, is fueled by anti-abortionists, who use a range of strategies to argue that fetuses are people with the full and complete statutory protections afforded to citizens.
      • In fact, the feelings of the mother, the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy, mean nothing to anti-abortionists.
      • For example, anti-abortionists have argued that since it is good to show a dead fetus on TV, it must be right that all women requesting abortion see images of fetuses - preferably their own.
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