What do drug prices have to do with NRLCs core issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia?
Since its inception, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has been committed to protecting the right to life from conception until natural death. We have fought just as strongly against infanticide and euthanasia as we have against abortion. In particular, we have strongly opposed involuntary denial of lifesaving medical treatment through rationing. In 1994 we opposed the Clinton Health Care Plan’s proposed insurance premium price controls because they would have forced rationing. In 1995-2003, during the congressional debate over Medicare restructuring, we successfully fought for the ability of older Americans to add their own money, if they choose, to government payments for health insurance premiums in order to obtain insurance plans that are less likely to ration care. Now, NRLC is opposing legislative changes in Medicare that would have the effect of imposing rationing of lifesaving drugs through drug price controls. Why would drug price controls cause rationing? The explan
