National Right to Life Committee - wikipedia National Right to Life Committee `` NRLC '' redirects here. For other uses, see Northwest Regional Learning Center. National Right to Life Committee National Right to Life Committee, Inc. Founded April 1, 1967 ( 1967 - 04 - 01 ) 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 Part of a series of articles on Abortion and the Catholic Church Official opposition Canon 915 Eucharist denial or excommunication Canon 1398 Evangelium vitae Humanae vitae In politics Philosophy and theology Consistent life ethic Culture of life Sanctity of life Ensoulment Double effect Indirect abortion History Gianna Beretta Molla Margaret McBride excommunication 2009 Brazilian girl abortion case Death of Savita Halappanavar Activism March for Life Life and Family Paris Prague Chicago Washington, D.C. West Coast Priests for Life Sisters of Life Knights of Columbus Catholic Answers CatholicVote.org American Life League Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute National Right to Life Committee Dissidence Catholics for Choice A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion See also WikiBook : Catholic Church and abortion Other Christian views In the United States Abortion Abortion law Catholicism portal 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. 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 NCCB. 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 NCCB 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. Contents 1 Organization 2 History 2.1 National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1968 -- 73 2.2 Incorporation, Human Life Amendment 2.3 Schism forms American Life League 2.4 The Silent Scream 2.5 NRLC Boycott of Hoechst Marion Roussel, Altace 2.6 Terri Schiavo case 3 Affiliates 4 Past presidents 5 See also 6 References 6.1 Notes 6.2 Citations 7 Further reading 8 External links Organization The national organization of National Right to Life is composed of several entities : National Right to Life Committee, Inc. ( NRLC ) 501c ( 4 ) EIN : 52 - 0986196 National Right to Life Committee Educational Trust Fund, 501c ( 3 ) EIN : 52 - 1241126 National Right to Life Educational Foundation, Inc., 501c ( 3 ) EIN : 73 - 1010913 National Right to Life Conventions, Inc., 501c ( 4 ) EIN : 52 - 1257773 National Right to Life Political Action Committee ( NRLPAC ), National Right to Life Victory Fund, an independent expenditure political action committee ( generally referred to as `` SuperPACs '' ). History National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1968 -- 73 During 1966, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops ( NCCB ) asked Fr. James T. McHugh to begin observing trends in abortion reform. McHugh was director of the United States Catholic Conference ( USCC ) Family Life Bureau and would later become bishop of Camden and of Rockville Centre. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops asked McHugh during their April 1967 annual conference to organize the National Right to Life Committee ( NRLC ) and fund the established NRLC with $50,000 to `` initiate and coordinate a program of information '' with state affiliates that would alert stakeholders concerning the wave of legislation sweeping through state chambers that was intended to weaken restrictive abortion statutes. '' The National Right to Life Committee was formalized during 1968, the same year that Pope Paul VI issued the encyclical Humanae vitae in response to the Pontifical Commission on Birth Control 1966 majority report supporting the use of artificial birth control by Roman Catholic couples. NRLC held a nationwide meeting of pro-life leaders in Chicago in 1970, at Barat College and New Jersey attorney Juan Ryan served as the first NRLC president. The following year, NRLC held its first convention at Macalestar College in St. Paul, Minnesota. From 1968 to 1971, the organization published a newsletter that informed member organizations about abortion - related legislation in the states. `` The only reason that we have a pro-life movement in this country is because of the Catholic people and the Catholic Church '', the executive director of the NRLC said in 1973. Incorporation, Human Life Amendment The NRLC was formally incorporated in May 1973, partially in response to the US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a campaign to amend the United States Constitution by enacting a Human Life Amendment seeking not only to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision, but to also forbid both Congress and the states from legalizing abortion within the United States. Its first convention as an incorporated organization was held the following month in Detroit, Michigan. At the concurrent meeting of NRLC 's board, Ed Golden of New York was elected president. Among the organization 's founding members was Mildred Jefferson, the first African - American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School. Jefferson subsequently served as president of the organization. Conventions have been held in various cities around the country every summer since the Detroit convention. Following incorporation in 1973, the Committee began publishing National Right to Life News. The newsletter has been in continuous publication since November 1973, and is now published daily online as the news and commentary feed, National Right To Life News Today. Schism forms American Life League On April 1, 1979, the American Life League was founded by Judie Brown and nine others after a schism within the National Right to Life Committee. Within less than a year of its founding, ALL had 68,000 members and received assistance from Howard Phillips, publicity from Heritage Foundation co-founder Paul Weyrich, and the help of extensive membership lists provided by direct mail specialist Richard Viguerie. In 1980, NRLC had an annual budget of 1.6 million dollars, and a membership of 11 million. The Silent Scream In 1984, the Committee co-produced the abortion documentary, The Silent Scream with Bernard Nathanson. In 1985, following two years of an Upjohn product boycott by the National Right to Life Committee, the Upjohn Company stopped all research on abortifacient drugs. Three years later, NRLC joined other pro-life groups in serving notice to drug companies that if any company sold an abortion - inducing drug, millions of Americans who opposed abortion would boycott all the company 's products. NRLC boycott of Hoechst Marion Roussel, Altace In the 1990s, the NRLC began a nationwide grassroots lobbying campaign against the Freedom of Choice Act, and announced a boycott of the French pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf and its American affiliates for allowing its abortion drug, mifepristone, into the United States. The U.S. National Right to Life Committee announced a 1994 U.S. boycott of all Hoechst pharmaceutical products including Altace, targeting the abortion pill RU - 486. According to Keri Folmar, the lawyer responsible for the language of the Partial - Birth Abortion Ban Act, the term `` partial birth abortion '' was developed in early 1995, in a meeting among herself, Charles T. Canady, and NRLC lobbyist Douglas Johnson. In 1997, Concerned Women for America participated in the National Right to Life 's press briefing at the National Press Club in support of the boycott against the U.S. subsidiaries of Hoechst AG & Roussel Uclaf ( developer and manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone ) whose new drug was Allegra. The National Right to Life boycott specified the following Hoechst Marion Roussel of Kansas City, Missouri branded pharmaceutcial products, except for Altace : Allegra, Cardizem, Seldane, Claforan, Lasix, DiaBeta, and Nicoderm. The King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. wholly owned subsidiary Monarch Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ( both pharmaceutical entities headquartered in Bristol, Tennessee ) acquired ownership of the U.S. distribution and marketing rights to Altace and other Hoescht products from Hoescht AG subsidiary Hoechst Marion Roussel of Kansas City, Missouri on December 18, 1998, and maintained a working, business partnership with Hoechst Marion Roussel to market and sell Altace and other Monarch Pharmaceuticals branded prescription drugs within the United States. Terri Schiavo case The National Right to Life Committee joined disability rights advocates in actively advocating for intervention in the Terri Schiavo case in 2003. On March 19, 2005, the NRLC issued an urgent congressional action alert requesting help in urging senators and representatives to resolve differences and pass ' Terri 's Law ' immediately, which would allow Florida Governor Jeb Bush to intervene in the matter. Affiliates This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( April 2011 ) The National Right to Life Committee is a federation of state right - to - life organizations. NRLC has 50 state affiliates and over 3,000 local chapters nationwide. State affiliates function independently and cooperatively with the national organization. The Committee 's board is representative, consisting of a director from each of the state affiliates, as well as eight members elected at - large. Its Virginia affiliate, the Virginia Society for Human Life, was founded in 1967, as the first state right - to - life organization. Other early affiliates include New York State Right to Life ( late 1967 ), Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life ( 1968 ), Florida Right to Life ( 1971 ), Georgia Right to Life ( 1971 ), Massachusetts Citizens for Life, Human Life of Washington ( 1971 ), and Montana Right to Life ( 1972 ). Other state organizations were quickly organized or became formally incorporated entities in the months immediately following the Supreme Court 's Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions legalized abortion nationwide. These include the Illinois Federation for Right to Life, North Carolina Right to Life, Arizona Right to Life, and Texas Right to Life, among others. In 2007, Colorado Citizens for Life successfully challenged Colorado Right to Life 's affiliation and representation to the national Committee 's board Colorado Right to Life after Colorado Right to Life ran a full - page ad in The Gazette criticizing Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. Past presidents 1968 -- 1973 -- Juan Ryan, New Jersey 1973 -- 1974 -- Edward Golden, New York 1974 -- 1975 -- Kenneth VanDerHoef, Washington 1975 -- 1978 -- Mildred Jefferson, Massachusetts 1978 -- 1980 -- Carolyn Gerster, Arizona 1980 -- 1983 -- John C. Willke, Ohio 1983 -- 1984 -- Jean Doyle, Florida 1984 -- 1991 -- John C. Willke, Ohio 1991 -- 2011 -- Wanda Franz, West Virginia 2011 -- present -- Carol Tobias, New Mexico See also Conservatism portal Eclipse of Reason National Pro-Life Religious Council Right to life Susan B. Anthony List References Notes Jump up ^ 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. Citations ^ Jump up to : http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTL.bmp K.M. Cassidy. `` Right to Life. '' In Dictionary of Christianity in America, Coordinating Editor, Daniel G. Reid. Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, 1990. pp. 1017, 1018. Jump up ^ `` National Right to Life Convention kicks off in Jacksonville ''. Florida Independent. Archived from the original on July 9, 2012. Retrieved June 25, 2012. Jump up ^ http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=DA-SORT&inPS=true&prodId=GPS&userGroupName=tel_s_tsla&tabID=T002&searchId=R3&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=10&contentSet=GALE%7CA262387307&&docId=GALE%7CA262387307&docType=GALE&role=ITOF&docLevel=FULLTEXT `` The national right to life committee : its founding, its history, and the emergence of the pro-life movement prior to Roe v. Wade ''. Robert N. Karrier. The Catholic Historical Review. 97.3 ( July 2011 ) : p. 527. From General OneFile. Jump up ^ `` God 's Own Party The Making of the Religious Right '', pp. 113 -- 116. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 534084 - 6. Daniel K. Williams. Oxford University Press. 2010. ^ Jump up to : http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=DA-SORT&inPS=true&prodId=GPS&userGroupName=tel_s_tsla&tabID=T002&searchId=R3&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&contentSegment=&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=10&contentSet=GALE%7CA262387307&&docId=GALE%7CA262387307&docType=GALE&role=ITOF&docLevel=FULLTEXT `` The national right to life committee : its founding, its history, and the emergence of the pro-life movement prior to Roe v. Wade ''. Robert N. Karrier. The Catholic Historical Review. 97.3 ( July 2011 ) : p527. From General OneFile. Jump up ^ `` The National Right to Life Committee : its founding, its history, and the emergence of the pro-life movement prior to Roe v. Wade ''. Cathol Hist Rev. 97 ( 3 ) : 527 -- 57. 2011. doi : 10.1353 / cat. 2011.0098. PMID 22069796. Jump up ^ http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTL.bmp K.M. Cassidy. `` Right to Life. '' In Dictionary of Christianity in America, Coordinating Editor, Daniel G. Reid. Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, 1990. pp. 1017, 1018. Jump up ^ `` God 's Own Party The Making of the Religious Right '', p. 116. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 534084 - 6. Daniel K. Williams. Oxford University Press. 2010. Jump up ^ Google Books ( review ) : `` God 's Own Party : The Making of the Christian Right '', p. 116. Daniel K. Williams https://books.google.com/books?id=tfkBh3hL0x4C&lpg=PA304&ots=ry0IBpt1il&dq=%22Effect%20of%20Ruling%20on%20States'%20Laws%22&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=%22Effect%20of%20Ruling%20on%20States'%20Laws%22&f=false Jump up ^ Staggenborg, Suzanne ( 1994 ). The Pro-Choice Movement : Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict. Oxford University Press US. p. 188. ISBN 0 - 19 - 508925 - 1. Jump up ^ Greenhouse, Linda ( 2010 ). Before Roe v. Wade : Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court 's Ruling. Kaplan Publishing. ISBN 1 - 60714 - 671 - 1. Archived from the original on January 14, 2013. Jump up ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=B9nFwo5B1BQC&lpg=PA170&ots=oFavSHR8Mu&dq=%22National%20Right%20to%20Life%20Committee%22%20%22National%20Conference%20of%20Catholic%20Bishops%22&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q=%22National%20Right%20to%20Life%20Committee%22%20%22National%20Conference%20of%20Catholic%20Bishops%22&f=false The Catholic Voter in American Politics : The Passing of the Democratic Monolith. pp. 169 - 170. William B. Prendergast. Jump up ^ Hevesi, Dennis ( October 18, 2010 ). `` Mildred Jefferson, 84, Anti-Abortion Activist, Is Dead - Obituary ( Obit ) ''. NYTimes.com. Retrieved November 7, 2012. Jump up ^ `` Founded ''. Retrieved March 30, 2014. Jump up ^ http://www.clmagazine.org/article/index/id/MTM1NDE A saintly influence : Pope John Paul II 's impact on American Life League -- and me. Judie Brown. Celebrate Life Magazine. Jump up ^ Smith, Peter ( May 6, 2013 ). `` Catholics Bid Farewell to Pro-Life Lion Howard Phillips ''. National Catholic Register. Retrieved July 2, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Right Wing Watch - American Life League ''. People for the American Way. Wayback Machine. April 2006. Archived from the original on June 12, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2014. Jump up ^ Alesha E. Doan ( 2007 ). Opposition and Intimidation : The abortion wars and strategies of political harassment. University of Michigan. p. 90. ^ Jump up to : `` Boycott Threat Blocking Sale Of Abortion - Inducing Drug '' New York Times Jump up ^ `` Abortion Drug Draws Boycott - ' ' New York Times ' ' ''. New York Times. July 8, 1994. Retrieved June 25, 2012. Jump up ^ http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLIFE/RUBOYCOT.TXT Now 's the Time to Defend Our Borders - A pro-life boycott could keep RU 486 out of the U.S. Jump up ^ Gorney, Cynthia. Gambling With Abortion. Harper 's Magazine, November 2004. Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20030630050537/http://www.cwfa.org/articles/1317/CWA/life/index.htm Concerned Women for America. Boycott of New Drug ' Allegra ' Aimed at Protecting Women & Children From Dangers of RU - 486 Retrieved from the Internet ARchive Jump up ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20010425235800/http://custservices.com/news.asp?up=8 News Update - Monarch Pharmaceuticals acquired April 25, 2001. Hoechst Marion Roussel. Retrieved at Internet Archive. Jump up ^ `` URGENT ACTION ALERT : National Right to Life Committee ( NRLC ) : : Terri Schiavo 's Life Counts ''. Hyscience. March 19, 2005. Retrieved June 25, 2012. Jump up ^ National group boots Colorado Right to Life Jump up ^ `` Colorado RTL open letter to Dr. James Dobson ''. Coloradorighttolife.org. Retrieved June 25, 2012. Further reading Karrer, Robert N. `` The National Right to Life Committee : Its Founding, Its History, and the Emergence of the Pro-Life Movement Prior to Roe V. Wade, '' Catholic Historical Review Volume 97, Number 3, July 2011 pp. 527 -- 557 in Project MUSE External links National Right to Life Committee, official website National Right To Life News Today, online newspaper American Citizens Concerned for Life, Inc. Records, ( 1968 ) 1974 - 1982 ( 1986 ) via Gerald R. Ford Library ProlifeProfiles.com/NRLC, criticism from within the pro-life movement From the archives : Bishop James McHugh dies at 68. Newsday. Zachary R. Dowdy. December 11, 2000 National Right to Life Committee People James T. 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Question: when was the national right to life founded
Answer: April 1, 1967