How to Use pro-life in a Sentence

pro-life

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  • One record looms large for Ohio pro-life activists: oh-and-six.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
  • In fact, a bill to continue the program has passed in the House with critical pro-life guardrails.
    Andrew Mark Miller Fox News, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Their critics said the three women claimed to be pro-life and flipped after Roe v. Wade was reversed.
    Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
  • The backlash and cases like Cox’s raise a couple of key questions: Do pro-life laws change the culture?
    Nicole Russell, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Florida, Ohio, Georgia, and Iowa all have the sort of pro-life laws that Trump is now condemning.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Democrats and the media are conspiring to sow confusion about pro-life laws.
    Becket Adams, National Review, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Candidates who are adamantly pro-life stand a good chance of losing.
    WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The council also passed a 2019 resolution in support of the pro-life movement and claiming the city as a pro-life city.
    Laurinda Joenks, Arkansas Online, 18 July 2023
  • Or of his service as a pro-life governor who fought for school choice and coasted to reelection in a solidly blue state.
    The Editors, National Review, 6 June 2023
  • The 2024 platform removed historic pro-life principles that have long been the foundation of the platform.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • Hoskins cited the last time the FRA was set for renewal in 2021, when a group of hard-right Senators derailed the bill over the same pro-life measures at issue this session.
    Anna Sago, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
  • On one hand, the panel held that pro-life physicians’ challenge to the FDA approval of mifepristone in 2000 might be barred by a six-year statute of limitation.
    The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The traditional March for Life snowstorm rolled in over D.C. last week, and the endless line of pink-cheeked pro-life marchers offered one kind of witness for women and children.
    Leah Libresco Sargeant, National Review, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There is no evidence that too much liberty during Covid led to pro-life defeats.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The nine justices ruled unanimously that the group of pro-life doctors who brought the mifepristone case were not personally harmed by the use of the drug and therefore had no right to sue.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • The moderate candidate saves some unborn babies; the adamantly pro-life one saves none.
    WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Well, certainly, every candidate talked about being pro-life and what their -- what their limits may or may not be.
    CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The judge in the case, a pro-life Trump appointee, may order the agency to rescind its approval of the drug, and possibly halt its availability nationwide.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The absurdities only take off from there, as Tutar travels in a metal cage and visits a pro-life clinic.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • The job and role of the attorney general is to defend Indiana’s laws in the courts, including Indiana’s strong pro-life laws.
    Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Myers talked about the need for a pro-life resolution during the three-way Republican primary for the JP7 seat.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Mar. 2023
  • My approach balances my pro-life conviction with a respect for the diverse views within our nation.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • When pro-life Americans look at real but tenuous gains achieved over the past year and the daunting task ahead of them, their mood might be less than celebratory.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 June 2023
  • In an interview shortly after Cubas’ promotion, Dunleavy said Cubas’ main job duty was to set up a pro-life, pro-family web page for the state.
    Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media and Curtis Gilbert, American Public Media, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023
  • People often accused evangelicals of being not so much pro-life as pro-birth.
    Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There’s no pro-life crusade against in vitro fertilization.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Republican governors who signed bold pro-life laws fared well in the November elections.
    The Editors, National Review, 14 Apr. 2023
  • But even in those elections, no pro-life incumbent senator or governor lost.
    Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • This will be the first legislative initiative that both pro-choice and pro-life people can support, because my AAA will greatly reduce abortions without bans.
    The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Demonizing pro-life protections to promote more abortions is not the answer.
    Shawna Mizelle, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2024

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