How to Use pro-life in a Sentence
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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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