RIGHT TO LIFE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does right to life mean? 

• RIGHT TO LIFE (noun)
  The noun RIGHT TO LIFE has 1 sense:

1. the right to live

  Familiarity information: RIGHT TO LIFE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHT TO LIFE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right to live

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("right to life" is a kind of...):

human right ((law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law))

 Context examples 

“Pollution threatens fundamental human rights, such as the right to life, health, well-being, safe work as well as protections of children and the most vulnerable,” co-author Karti Sandilya said.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)