Pro-choice: This term refers to the belief that individuals have the right to choose whether or not to terminate their pregnancies.
Pro-life: This term refers to those who believe that fetuses have a right to life and oppose abortion on moral grounds.
Roe v. Wade: A landmark Supreme Court decision in 1973 which ruled that a state law that banned abortions (except to save the life of the mother) was unconstitutional and that women have the constitutional right to choose whether to have an abortion.