How to Use pro-choice in a Sentence

pro-choice

adjective
Definition of pro-choicenext
  • Democrats and pro-choice groups have widely espoused the idea of court packing in the months since the fall of Roe v. Wade.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 14 May 2023
  • The new stricter six-week ban could stoke more intense anger among women and pro-choice voters.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Apr. 2024
  • And by 2020, the Democrats had become a totally pro-choice party.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The truth is, nobody wants to admit that Trump is really pro-choice.
    — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Remove those conditions, and the public veers in a pro-choice direction.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Apr. 2023
  • No topic came up as frequently in these conversations as the post-Dobbs pro-choice turn.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2024
  • In 2021, more Americans identified as pro-choice than identified as pro-life by just a ...
    — John McCormack, National Review, 14 June 2023
  • The fact remains that during the vaunted pro-choice backlash of the past two years, not one pro-life senator or governor has lost his office in an election.
    — The Editors, National Review, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Skillet frontman John Cooper is firing at pro-choice activism — and brought up Demi Lovato in the process.
    — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Most recently, Butler led the Democratic group Emily’s List, which aims to elect pro-choice women to office.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • As a pro-choice woman, Bollier feels that being a Republican had never been a perfect fit.
    — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The housemates had fun at a roller disco; a few of them road-tripped to a pro-choice rally in Washington and worked as volunteers for Jerry Brown’s Presidential campaign.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024
  • Her own career in fundraising began at Planned Parenthood, which aligned with her liberal pro-choice outlook.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2023
  • This will be the first legislative initiative that both pro-choice and pro-life people can support, because my AAA will greatly reduce abortions without bans.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • California remains a strong pro-choice state, with Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a slate of bills last fall to strengthen protections for reproductive freedoms.
    — Gabriel Greschler, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Well-organized and well-funded extremists have brought lawsuits to further restrict access, hoping to undermine access in states that are firmly pro-choice.
    — Elizabeth Warren, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There are Americans who are pro-choice, pro-freedom and in favor of women and their doctors being able to determine the best medical care for women without interference from the government.
    — For Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2024
  • For example, both pro-choice and pro-life advocates generally want as few girls and women as possible to face an unwanted pregnancy.
    — Zoe Weil, TIME, 26 June 2024
  • The results also show that pro-choice voters were not persuaded by some Republicans’ attempts to moderate their positions.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The most recent test of the political issue played out in Ohio’s special election on Aug. 8, where voters got to decide a more procedural issue that shows underlying support for pro-choice legislation.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 14 Aug. 2023
  • A lot of people dismiss your candidacy by simply saying the Republican Party is never going to nominate somebody who calls themselves pro-choice or has been identified as pro-choice.
    — NBC News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • All week, political insiders have speculated about why Newsom chose the relatively under-the-radar president of Emily’s List, the fundraising platform for pro-choice female politicians, to serve the remaining 15 months of Feinstein’s term.
    — Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
  • And Republican legislatures across the country, spooked by successful pro-choice referenda, raising new barriers to ballot initiatives, some requiring supermajorities of 60 percent or higher to pass.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023

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