Right to life movement

The right to life movement or pro-life movement opposes abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia on moral grounds. It is closely related to the anti-abortion movement and anti-euthanasia movement. The difference is that while the anti-abortion focuses on abortion and anti-euthanasia movement focuses on euthanasia and assisted suicide, the right-to-life movement covers all three issues. The terms "right to life" and "pro-life" are generally associated more with opposition to abortion than to assisted suicide and euthanasia, and many right-to-life organizations primarily focus on abortion, but most organizations oppose all three.[1][2] The consistent life ethic, held by some in the right-to-life movement, opposes not only abortion, assisted suicide, and euthanasia, but also capital punishment and war. In the United States, the National Right to Life Committee is the largest right-to-life organization.[3]

The right-to-life movement is often associated with Christianity (especially Catholicism) and the Republican Party, but groups such as Secular Pro-Life and Democrats for Life of America hold anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia views for other reasons.[4] [5]

## Notes and references

1. ↑ "National Right to Life Mission Statement | National Right to Life". https://www.nrlc.org/about/mission/.
2. ↑ "Euthanasia & End of Life Issues". https://studentsforlife.org/learn/euthanasia-and-end-of-life-issues/.
3. ↑ "National Right to Life Convention kicks off in Jacksonville". Florida Independent. http://floridaindependent.com/35887/national-right-to-life-conference-kicks-off-in-jacksonville.
4. ↑ "Error: no `|title=` specified when using {{Cite web}}". https://secularprolife.org/.Error:+no+`|title=`+specified when+using+{{[[Template:Cite+web|Cite+web]]}}&rft.atitle=&rft_id=https://secularprolife.org/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikibooks.org:Social:Right_to_life_movement">
5. ↑ "DFLA - Pro-Life for the Whole Life - Democrats For Life of America". https://www.democratsforlife.org/.

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