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The term pro-choice entered currency after pro-life and was coined by those who supported legal abortion as a response to the success of the pro-life branding. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The first use of the term cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is in a 1969 issue of the California daily newspaper the Oxnard Press-Courier , which referred to "Pro-choice ...
Albert Wynn and Gloria Feldt on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to rally for legal abortion on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. The United States abortion-rights movement (also known as the pro-choice movement) is a sociopolitical movement in the United States supporting the view that a woman should have the legal right to an elective abortion, meaning the right to terminate her pregnancy ...
Abortion-rights movements, also self-styled as pro-choice movements, are movements that advocate for legal access to induced abortion services, including elective abortion. They seek to represent and support women who wish to terminate their pregnancy without fear of legal or social backlash.
But a competing measure—Initiative 434—passed 55.3 percent to 44.7 percent and, while not as supportive of legal abortion as 439, it's also something of a pro-choice bill.
A few Republicans running for competitive or Democratic-leaning congressional seats are adopting and reviving a label that was nearly extinct in their party: pro-choice. The terminology marks some ...
Julia Louis-Dreyfus took to Twitter and vowed to match $10,000 in donations to 11 pro-choice candidates for state legislatures where abortion rights are on the line in the upcoming midterms. She ...
Catholics for Choice, a pro-abortion rights Catholic advocacy group; Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion, a defunct interfaith group of clergy that counseled and referred people for safe abortions before Roe v. Wade; Joy of Satan Ministries, a polytheistic religion which believes Lillith to be a goddess of women's rights and decisions [6]
A Gallup poll in 2011 found that 27% of Republicans identified themselves as "pro-choice". [3] However, 42% of Republicans support legal abortion during the first trimester. [ 4 ] In 2017, Gallup released polling information showing that 36% of Republicans identified as "pro-choice" and 70% agreed that abortion should be legal in some (56%) or ...