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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 and ...
The abortion debate is a longstanding and contentious discourse that touches on the moral, legal, medical, and religious aspects of induced abortion. [1] In English-speaking countries, the debate has two major sides, commonly referred to as the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" movements.
May 4–6, a CNN poll found 45% said "pro-choice" and 50% said pro-life. [348] Within the following week, a Gallup poll found 50% responding "pro-choice" and 44% pro-life. [349] In 2011, a poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 43% of respondents identified themselves as both "pro-life" and "pro-choice". [350]
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 pro-choice demonstrator holds a sign that reads, “Doctors not doctrine.” (Katie Hawkinson/The Independent) “It’s my church that is operating in legislatures, in the courts, to try and ...
In the late 1960s, a number of organizations were formed to mobilize opinion both against and for the legalization of abortion. The forerunner of the NARAL Pro-Choice America was formed in 1969 to oppose restrictions on abortion and expand access to abortion. [25] In late 1973, NARAL became the National Abortion Rights Action League.
'We can work with him': Abortion opponents tentatively embrace Trump, and pro-choice RFK Jr. Savannah Kuchar, USA TODAY. Updated December 2, 2024 at 12:16 PM.
In a 2009 Gallup Poll, a majority of U.S. adults (51%) called themselves "pro-life" on the issue of abortion—for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995—while 42% identified themselves as "pro-choice", [81] although pro-choice groups noted that acceptance of the "pro-life" label did not in all cases indicate opposition ...