prochoice

Adjective

pro-choice

1. (public policy) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
   • 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.2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Prague Summer”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 354
2. (public policy) Supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to end their life by euthanasia.
   • 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.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
3. Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.
   • 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.2010, Sara Hayden, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice, page 102