Description: Florida Right to Life (FRTL) is a statewide, grassroots pro-life advocacy organization founded in the early 1970s that promotes policies and public education to protect human life \"from conception to natural death.\" It engages in public outreach, student programs, legislative lobbying, and electoral activity aimed at reducing abortions and opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia. Type: Non-profit organization (state-level advocacy group) with an affiliated political action committee Policies: Advocates for restrictive abortion laws and gestational limits, fetal personhood and related legal protections, opposition to euthanasia/assisted suicide, support for crisis pregnancy centers and alternatives to abortion, parental involvement laws and pro-life judicial and administrative appointments; conducts public education and candidate endorsements on life issues. Funding: Primarily funded by individual donors and grassroots supporters, donations from pro-life constituents and sympathetic donors, fundraising events, and contributions to/through its affiliated PAC and educational fund. Affiliates: National Right to Life, county and local Right to Life chapters across Florida, Florida Right to Life PAC (and affiliated educational fund); historical founders and early leaders include Dr. John Grady, Jean Doyle, and Arlene Pelzer.
