pro-deather
English
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editpro-deather (plural pro-deathers)
- (derogatory, dysphemistic, uncommon) A person who is supportive of the practice or legality of abortion or who is opposed to “pro-life” causes.
- Antonym: pro-lifer
- 1995 February 21, Angie Miller, “Church Will Always Have PR Problems with World”, in Liberty Champion[1], Lynchburg, Virginia, retrieved November 19, 2022, page 13:
- Without realizing it, the pro-deathers and the police together end up closing the clinic down, thus preventing aboritons on that day, all to avoid violence!
- 1998, Marlene Gerber Fried, “Abortion in the United States – Legal but Inaccessible”, in Rickie Solinger, editor, Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950–2000[2], Berkeley, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 209:
- Recently our local abortion rights fund received a piece of mail enjoining “pro-lifers” to “attack” abortion providers and other “peddlers of death. . . . When we shoot, we should aim for the lower spine and the buttocks. At this time we probably don’t need to kill to discourage some pro-deathers from implementing their agenda.”
- a. 2013, “Euthanasia Pro-Deather Spills the Beans”[3], Pro-Life Victoria, archived from the original on October 26, 2022.