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What is "pro-choice"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pro-choice
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ pro-choice activists
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A pro-choice president now stands guard over abortion rights.
▪ Dole is anti-abortion, while Wilson is a leader among pro-choice Republicans.
▪ He denied allegations that a threatened boycott of Idaho potatoes by pro-choice advocates had influenced his decision to veto the bill.
▪ He is wrong, they argue, in considering a pro-choice advocate for vice president.
▪ He will guard against any tampering with the anti-abortion plank and reject any pro-choice possibilities on the ticket.
▪ Republicans have a fractious debate led by pro-choice governors, including California Gov.
▪ So the process continues: pro-choice members of Congress hoped to pass legislation incorporating clearer statutory rights to abortion.
▪ Throughout the 1992 election campaign, it became quite clear just how vehemently abortion opponents feared the coming of a pro-choice president.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pro-choice

"favoring a right to abortion," 1975, from pro- + choice.

Wiktionary
pro-choice

a. 1 (context public policy legal ethics English) supportive of a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. 2 (context public policy legal ethics English) supportive of a person's right to choose whether or not to end their life by euthanasia. 3 supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, self-ownership, bodily integrity and individual sovereignty.

WordNet
pro-choice

adj. advocating a woman's right to control her own body (especially her right to an induced abortion) [ant: pro-life]

Usage examples of "pro-choice".

In 1992 when he was running against Les AuCoin, the Democratic Congressman who had been a pro-choice leader in the House, NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League, publicly, in spite of all the stories about Bob Packwood, endorsed and backed Pack-wood.

Repeal of the sex determination ban to be brought up again by the pro-choice faction.

In the simplest characterization, a pro-choicer would hold that the decision to abort a pregnancy is to be made only by the woman.

Pro-choice Clinton, like the two presidents before him, had already signed an order prohibiting any American funds from paying for abortions in foreign countries.