# pro-choice
## English
### Alternative forms

* prochoice

### Etymology

From pro- +‎ choice.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

pro-choice
* (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.
* (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, 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.
* 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.

#### Synonyms

* (sometimes derogatory) proabortion
* (derogatory) antilife
* (derogatory) prodeath

#### Antonyms

* anti-choice

#### Derived terms

* pro-choicer

#### Translations
### See also

* pro-life

### References

* “pro-choice”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pro-choice.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prɔˈt͡ʂɔjs/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔjs
* Syllabification: pro‧choice

### Adjective

pro-choice (not comparable, no derived adverb)
* (postpositive) pro-choice (supportive of abortion rights)
    Antonym: pro-life

### Noun

pro-choice m inan (indeclinable)
* pro-choice movement
    Antonym: pro-life

#### Declension

Indeclinable
or

### Noun

pro-choice m pers
* pro-choice activist
    Synonym: pro-choicer
    Antonyms: prolajfer, pro-life

#### Related terms

* pro-choicer

### Further reading

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