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antiabortionism

antiabortionism is the alternative spelling of anti-abortionism.

Meaning of anti-abortionism

Noun

anti-abortionism (uncountable)

  1. An ideology or policy of opposition to the practice and/or legalization of abortion.
    • Anti-abortionism became crucial in the protection of births and population growth and thus a key element in the social policy of the New State.1991, Mary Nash, “Pronatalism and motherhood in Franco's Spain”, in Gisela Bock, Pat Thane, editors, Maternity & Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare States 1880s-1950s...
    Synonyms:
    pro-lifeism

Questions about antiabortionism

What is antiabortionism the alternative spelling of?
Antiabortionism is the alternative spelling of anti-abortionism.

Words near antiabortionism in the dictionary

  1. antiabolitionist
  2. antiabolitionists
  3. antiabortifacient
  4. antiabortifacients
  5. antiabortion
  6. antiabortionism
  7. antiabortionist
  8. antiabortionists
  9. antiabortive
  10. antiabrasion
  11. antiabsolutism

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