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In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court found, in the U.S. Constitution, an invisible “right” to kill preborn children. Even before that horrendous decision, National Right to Life was organizing and mobilizing state affiliates to defend the right to life for our littlest brothers and sisters.
The right-to-life movement or pro-life movement opposes abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia on moral grounds. It is closely related to the anti-abortion movement and anti-euthanasia movement.
Advocates support legal prohibition or restriction on ethical, moral, or religious grounds, arguing that human life begins at conception and that the human zygote, embryo or fetus is a person and therefore has a right to life. The anti-abortion movement includes a variety of organizations, with no single centralized decision-making body. [1]
Since our founding in 1968 as the first nationwide right-to-life group, we have been entirely dedicated to defending America’s first right: life. There is something sociopathic about a political movement that tells young women (and men) that it is liberating to murder their own children.
National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (NRLC) was formed in 1968 with the support of religious leaders who saw the need for an organization singularly focused on advocating for the protection of human life, one that would work across all faith traditions and with those having no religious belief.
Now, the Court appears to be on the verge of overturning the right to an abortion, bringing a movement that transformed American politics over the past half century to its apex.
The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is the oldest and largest national anti-abortion organization in the United States with affiliates in all 50 states and more than 3,000 local chapters nationwide. [2]
The Right to Life Movement and Third-Party Politics (Westport, Conn., 1987 Google Scholar) deals with New York but contains information relevant to an understanding of the larger movement.
Led by the National Right to Life Committee, right-to-lifers prioritized a constitutional amendment that would restore the right to life, reverse Roe, and ban abortion across the country. For years, movement organizations endlessly debated what a perfect amendment would involve.
Drawing on the language of the Declaration of Independence, pro-life advocates argued for a “right to life” of the unborn. Additionally, they advocated before the courts and in state legislatures and Congress for just treatment.