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illegalise
verb
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The charity is campaigning to illegalise lion hunting and stop the EU and USA allowing lion corpses and trophies to be imported.
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Illegalising abortion is a bad idea, but criminalising abortion for rape victims and outlawing IVF by granting full legal rights to just-conceived embryos is such a terrible notion that it's scarcely interesting to debate it.
A politician in Kazakhstan has claimed "blood tests for degeneratism" can identify gay people while calling for homosexuality to be illegalised.
Jan Mokrzycki, chair of the Federation of Poles, whose members comprise 100 Polish organisations in the UK, says that the abuse of employment rights is so prevalent that it is illegalising the Polish workers.
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