pro-lifeadj.

1960 E. Fromm & A. S. Neill Summerhill: Radical Approach to Child Rearing 343 No pro-life parent or teacher would ever strike a child. No pro-life citizen would tolerate our penal code, our hangings, our punishment of homosexuals, our attitude toward bastardy.

1961 G. Smith Business of Loving xvii. 284 Benny divides people into..the life-enhancers and the life-diminishers; he is a believer in the first, a leader of the pro-life party.

1997 Resource Packet for Neo-Paganism & Witchcraft 91 Many Witches are presently military personnel, while others are conscientious objectors, derived from the generally pro-life stance of Wicca.

1971 Los Angeles Times 28 Oct. (Southeast ed.) vii.1/2 The parent organization carries out pro-life, anti-abortion educational programs through speakers, printed material and films.

1978 Dædalus Spring 155 Its eleven members include only five scientists, one of whom was known for his prolife position... It could have recommended against fetal research altogether.

1980 N.Y. Times 1 June xxiii. 5/1 On abortion, euthanasia, war, capital punishment and suicide prevention..my prolife stand is taking the life side of each one of those... I would include murder and gun control; it seems like a lot of people who are ‘prolife’ are against gun control.

1992 Newsweek 27 Apr. 44/2 There are big pro-life groups for Roman Catholics and evangelicals, and dozens of other groups that few outsiders have heard of, for blacks, Hispanics, physicians, feminists and abortion ‘victims’ (women who have had one).

2002 Times 6 Mar. (T2 section) 4/1 As Bernadette was walking down the street last week a pro-life protester thrust a leaflet into her face that denounced all women who seek terminations as murderers.

2005 Washington Post (Electronic text) 26 Mar. I'm pro-life. I'm against euthanasia. You have to give everyone a chance.