The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) is the oldest and largest national anti-abortion organization in the United States with affiliates in all 50 states and more than 3,000 local chapters nationwide. Since the 1980s, NRLC has influenced anti-abortion policy at national and state levels through campaign financing of anti-abortion and almost exclusively Republican candidates and writing model legislation that would restrict or ban abortion. Organization The national organization of National Right to Life comprises the: National Right to Life Committee, Inc. (NRLC), 501c(4), EIN: 52–0986196; National Right to Life Committee Educational Trust Fund, 501c(3), EIN: 52–1241126; National Right to Life Educational Foundation, Inc., 501c(3), EIN: 73–1010913; National Right to Life Conventions, Inc., 501c(4), EIN: 52–1257773; National Right to Life Political Action Committee (NRLPAC); and National Right to Life Victory Fund, an independent expenditure political action committee, i. e., a "SuperPAC". History National Conference of Catholic Bishops: 1968–73 In 1966 the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) asked James T. McHugh to begin observing trends in the reform of policy on abortion. At the time then McHugh was Director of the United States Catholic Conference (USCC) Family Life Bureau, and later became the Bishop of Camden and then of Rockville Centre. The NCCB asked McHugh during its annual conference in April 1967 to organize the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and fund the established NRLC with $50,000 to "initiate and coordinate a program of information" with state affiliates that would inform stakeholders of the wave of proposed state legislation to liberalize statutes prohibiting abortion. The National Right to Life Committee was formalized in 1968. McHugh hired executive assistant Michael Taylor to help with the day-to-day needs of the organization. In October 1968, they published the first NRLC newsletter formally introducing the organization and providing information on the efforts to change abortion laws. On the state level, independent right to life organizations were beginning to form and began to rely on NRLC for direction and information. The newsletter lasted until 1971. NRLC held its first meeting of nationwide anti-abortion leaders in Chicago, Illinois in 1970 at Barat College. New Jersey attorney Juan Ryan served as the first President of NRLC. In the following year NRLC held its first convention at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. "The only reason that we have a pro-life movement in this country is because of the Catholic people and the Catholic Church", stated the