WASHINGTON – The announcement early last week by Nebraska abortionist LeRoy Carhart that he would soon open up abortion operations in Iowa, Indiana, and Maryland highlights the need for greater laws protecting mothers and their unborn children, according to the...
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NRLC Analysis: Voters Rebuked “Pro-Life” Supporters of Obama Health Care Law
WASHINGTON – In an analysis solicited by a blogger for the National Catholic Reporter and posted on that paper's website yesterday, National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) Legislative Director Douglas Johnson asserts that last week's election results represent a...
National Right to Life Sets Legislative Strategy Conference to Capitalize on State Election Victories
WASHINGTON (November 9, 2010) – The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nation’s largest pro-life group with affiliates in all 50 states and over 3,000 local chapters nationwide, today announced that it will hold a State Legislative Strategy Conference for...
Sestak Voted Against Amendment to Prevent Federal Funding of Abortion – But Now He Brazenly Misrepresents His Record
WASHINGTON (October 22, 2010) – The clearest, most important vote to occur in years in the U.S. House of Representatives on the issue of federal funding of abortion was conducted on November 7, 2009, when the House voted on the Stupak-Pitts Amendment to the pending...
National Right to Life Mourns the Death of Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson
WASHINGTON -- Today, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) joined with pro-lifers nationwide in mourning the death of former NRLC president Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson. A resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Dr. Jefferson was currently serving as an at-large...
Pain-Capable Unborn Children Protected in Nebraska
WASHINGTON -- Today, the landmark Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, passed by the Nebraska Legislature last April, will take effect. The first of its kind in the United States, Nebraska's law prohibits abortion after 20 weeks gestation based on emerging...
Congressman Driehaus uses criminal complaint in attempt to gag critics; NRLC refutes his claims with sworn affidavit and documents
To go to the index of documents about Congressman Steve Driehaus's criminal complaint and the NRLC affidavit, click here. WASHINGTON -- The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has produced a sworn affidavit, submitted today to the Ohio Elections Commission,...
NRLC Commends House Republican “Pledge to America”
National Right to Life commends House Republican "Pledge to America" to repeal Obama health law and permanently bar federal funds for abortion WASHINGTON -- The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nationwide federation of right-to-life organizations,...
Misinformation Campaign in New Hampshire Senate Primary
WASHINGTON -- Today the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) issued a memorandum drafted by NRLC Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D., refuting recent charges that as New Hampshire attorney general Kelly Ayotte is misrepresenting her pro-life...
Proposed Constitution in Kenya Allows Abortion on Demand
WASHINGTON -- Media reports regarding the proposed constitution in Kenya, which goes before the country for a vote on Wednesday, continue to misrepresent the proposed document's impact on the country's abortion policy. “Many in the media are falsely reporting that...