Protecting
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To keep safe; to defend; to guard; to prevent harm coming to.
Example sentence: The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
Protective
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Serving, intended or wishing to protect.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Something that protects.A condom.
Example sentence: It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.