Pro-choice

Term introduced by those in favour of legal abortion in the 1970s, to counterbalance their opponents’ emphasis on the foetus’s ‘right to life’. Exploits our love of ‘choice’ as the primary virtue of a consumerist age.

Article contrasting ‘pro-choice’ with ‘no choice’

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