NRLC: NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE

National Right to Life Committee
National Right to Life Committee, Inc.
Founded	April 1, 1967
Founder	National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Tax ID no.	EIN 52-0986195
Location	Washington, DC
Key people	Carol Tobias, President James T. McHugh
Revenue	$5,717,028 (2012–2013)
Expenses	$6,288,548 (2012–2013)
Website	www.nrlc.org

The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is the oldest and the largest national pro-life organization in the United States with affiliates in all 50 states and over 3,000 local chapters nationwide.^{[N 1]} The group works through legislation and education to work against induced abortion, infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide.

In 1966, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) asked James T. McHugh to begin observing trends in abortion reform. The National Right to Life Committee was founded in 1967, as the Right to Life League to coordinate its state campaigns under the auspices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. To appeal to a more broad-based, nonsectarian movement, key Minnesota leaders proposed an organizational model that would separate the NRLC from the direct oversight of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and by early 1973 NRLC Director James T. McHugh and his executive assistant, Michael Taylor, proposed a different plan, facilitating the NRLC move toward its independence from the Catholic Church.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Right_to_Life_Committee

Notes

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The oldest state pro-life organization in the US is Virginia Society for Human Life which was founded in 1967.
 • Nation's Oldest Right to Life Organization Supporting Thompson Standard News Wire.com, December 20. Retrieved: September 9, 2013.
 • Fred Thompson Receives the Endorsement of Virginia Society for Human Life Presidency Project UCSB.EDU, December 20, 2007. Retrieved: September 9, 2013.

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