United States anti-abortion movement
movement seeking to ban elective abortions in the United States
The United States anti-abortion movement (also called the pro-life movement or right-to-life movement) contains elements opposing induced abortion on both moral and religious grounds and supports its legal prohibition or restriction. Advocates generally argue that human life begins at conception and that the human zygote, embryo or fetus is a person and therefore has a right to life. The anti-abortion movement includes a variety of organizations, with no single centralized decision-making body. There are diverse arguments and rationales for the anti-abortion stance.
Quotes
edit- The most important thing is, can we agree on the goal? Is the goal the absolute abolition of abortion in our nation?
- Tom Ascol as quoted by Elizabeth Dias, "One Week That Revealed the Struggles of the Anti-Abortion Movement", New York Times (June 14, 2024)
- Your body, my choice.
- Pro-life slogan coined by Nick Fuentes, parodying the Pro-choice slogan "My body, my choice" (November 5, 2024), quoted by Moira Donegan, "'Your body, my choice': what misogynistic Trump supporters feel about sexual power", The Guardian (November 13, 2024)
