National Right to Life Committee
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The National Right to Life Committee is a right to life/pro-life organization. It is the United States' largest pro-life organization and was founded in Detroit as a non-sectarian, non-partisan group, opposed to abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. The founding members included leaders in fields of science, religion, law, ethics and medicine. There are over 3,000 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each year, the National Right to Life Committee hosts the National Right to Life Convention.
[edit] History
1973 (May) - In response to the US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision (based on a legal principle of an individual's right to privacy), U.S. pro-life advocates argue that such is superseded by an unborn child's right to life to be protected under the law and created the National Right to Life Committee.
1985 - The Upjohn Company stops all research on drugs to induce an abortion or prevent pregnancies following two years of an Upjohn product boycott by the National Right to Life Committee.[1]
1988 - The National Right to Life Committe joins other pro-life groups in serving notice to drug companies that if any company sells an abortion-inducing drug millions of Americans who oppose abortion will boycott all the company's products.[2]
1994 - The National Right to Life Committee announces a boycott of the French pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf and its American affiliates for allowing its abortion drug, RU-486, into the United States.[3]
1997 (April 2) - The public policy women's organization Concerned Women For America participates in the National Right to Life's press briefing in the National Press Club, standing in support of the boycott against the U.S. subsidiaries of Hoechst AG & Roussel Uclaf, developer and manufacturer of the abortion pill RU-486, the latest focus of which is the drug Allegra.[4]
2003 - National Right to Life Committee begins actively advocating for the life of Terri Schiavo.
2005 (March 19) - National Right to Life Committee issues 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.[5]
2006 (July 19) - National Right to Life Committee commends president Bush's veto of funding for stem cell research, and rebukes lawmakers who rejected alternatives. [6]
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- "Boycott Threat Blocking Sale Of Abortion-Inducing Drug." New York Times. Gina Kolada. February 22, 1988.
- " Abortion Drug Draws Boycott." The New York Times. July 8, 1994.
- "Pharmacists For Life Joins International Boycott." Life Communications, vol. 4, no. 19. November, 1994.
- "Boycott of New Drug 'Allegra' Aimed at Protecting Women & Children From Dangers of RU-486." Concerned Women For America. April 2, 1997.
- "National Right to Life Commends Sustained Veto of Funding for Research that Kills Human Embryos, Rebukes 154 House Members for Rejecting Ethical Alternatives." National Right to Life Committee. July 19, 2006.
- "URGENT ACTION ALERT: National Right to Life Committee (NRLC)". Hyscience. March 19, 2005.
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