About California Pro-Life Council

California Pro-Life Council, the state affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee since 1971. CPLC is a non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian grassroots organization dedicated to the cessation of the perceived need for abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. We believe this goal will be accomplished on two fronts:

(1) working within the law to change the law
(2) changing public opinion through education.

About National Right to Life Committee

The National Right to Life Committee was founded in 1973 in response to a United States Supreme Court decision released on January 22 of that year, legalizing the practice of human abortion in all 50 states, throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy. Prior to that Supreme Court case-- Roe vs. Wade -- the abortion debate had been centered in the legislatures of the states, 17 of which had legalized abortion under some circumstances and 33 of which had voted to continue to protect human life from conception.