Missouri Right to Life

What We Do

* Educate the public on abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia.
* Promote right to life legislation.
* Support positive alternatives to abortion.
* Plan, coordinate, and manage the efforts of our membership for effective action.

Through these efforts, for the benefit of all society, we seek to protect the right to life of innocent, helpless human beings from conception to natural death.

The following statement is from Missouri Right to Life (MRL), Missouri's largest pro-life organization and the Missouri State Affiliate of National Right to Life Committee (NRLC):

Missouri Right to Life (MRL) strongly opposes any use of violence as a means of stopping the violence that has killed more than 36 million unborn children since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision of 1973. Missouri Right to Life has always been involved in peaceful, legal activities to protect human lives threatened by abortion, infanticide and euthanasia. We have always and will continue to oppose any form of violence to fight the violence of abortion. MRL has a strict policy forbidding violence (or even illegal activity) by its staff, directors, and officers. MRL's sole purpose is to protect life.

It is false and offensive to suggest, as some pro-abortion groups have, that speaking in favor of the right to life somehow causes violence. Such a suggestion is like blaming the civil rights movement - and all those who courageously spoke in favor of the rights of African-Americans - for the riots or deaths that were a part of that era.

MRL will continue to work through educational, legislative and political activities to ensure the right to life for unborn children, people with disabilities and older people. MRL will continue to work for peaceful solutions to social problems. These solutions involve helping women and their children and do not involve violence against anyone.