How to Use pro-life in a Sentence

pro-life

adjective
  • When Obamacare passed, about forty House Democrats were pro-life.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Candidates who are adamantly pro-life stand a good chance of losing.
    — WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Maybe a pro-life Democrat could do more for the party than anything else right now.
    — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Democrats and the media are conspiring to sow confusion about pro-life laws.
    — Becket Adams, National Review, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Cox is pro-life and a strong advocate for the Second Amendment.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 13 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • There is no evidence that too much liberty during Covid led to pro-life defeats.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 15 Nov. 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
  • People often accused evangelicals of being not so much pro-life as pro-birth.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 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 moderate candidate saves some unborn babies; the adamantly pro-life one saves none.
    — WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
  • But even in those elections, no pro-life incumbent senator or governor lost.
    — Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • Other secular groups tie their pro-life advocacy to a broader fight for human rights.
    — Anne Whitesell, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2025
  • If there are some pro-life gubernatorial candidates in a red state, God bless.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The party is also strongly pro-life while being staunchly anti-Islam.
    — Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Republican governors who signed bold pro-life laws fared well in the November elections.
    — The Editors, National Review, 14 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chavez is also involved in Bobcats for Life, a pro-life student organization.
    — Veronica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The 2024 platform removed historic pro-life principles that have long been the foundation of the platform.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 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
  • She’s spent time with mothers dealing with anomaly pregnancies who have had to travel to another state for care, in some cases witnesses pro-life posters and signs on the way there.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Members of Students for Life, a pro-life group that worked with Kirk in the past, say wore red shirts on campus this week in honor of his memory.
    — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 13 Sep. 2025
  • 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 definition of pro-life to me is a leader who wants to give every existing member of our society the greatest chance not only to survive, but to thrive.
    — Lena Dunham, Vogue, 1 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • It was unanimously dismissed in 2024, because the justices determined that the group of pro-life doctors who filed the lawsuit didn't have standing.
    — Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR, 7 May 2026

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