An Open Letter to Pro-lifers — 'Supreme Court Actually Kept Partial Birth Abortion Legal' (Human Events ad)

PL-2007-001 · June 11, 2007

Control record — meets or exceeds the standard Primary source Coalition letter Unscored

Control record — meets or exceeds the standard. Record that meets or exceeds the standard on the dimension at issue; kept for contrast, scores null or low.

Classification
Control record — meets or exceeds the standard
Date
June 11, 2007
Lead organization
Colorado Right to Life
Recipient
Pro-life movement / public
Topic
Gonzales v. Carhart / incrementalism
Type
Coalition letter
Verification
Primary source
Signature rows
7 (6 (+1 later) reported)
Completeness
Complete from letter text

§ 1 Key language

“withhold support from any effort that would intentionally kill one innocent baby” Colorado Right to Life, June 11, 2007

§ 2 Why there is no scorecard

The rubric measures one thing: how far a document falls short of the abolitionist standard, on six dimensions scored 0–2. It has nothing to measure in a document that does not fall short, so the dataset author left this record unscored and classified it by reading it instead.

Control record — meets or exceeds the standard. Record that meets or exceeds the standard on the dimension at issue; kept for contrast, scores null or low.

Editor's note on this recordAnti-incrementalist rebuke of pro-life leaders; meets or exceeds the abolitionist immediatism tenet. Kept as a contrast record, not scored.

It is kept as a control: a reference point for what a pro-life document that does not compromise looks like, for comparison with the scored records. Compare any scored letter's scorecard to see what the six dimensions look like when they apply.

§ 3 Signatories

7 signature rows · 6 (+1 later) reported by the letter · Complete from letter text. Full signature block transcribed from the letter itself. Rows are transcribed as printed, in the order they appear; names link to the person, organizations to the organization.

#Name as printedTitle as printedOrganization as printed
1 Brian Rohrbough President Colorado Right to Life
2 Rev. Tom Euteneuer President Human Life International
3 Flip Benham Director Operation Rescue / Operation Save America
4 Dr. Pat Johnston ProLife Physicians
5 Bob Enyart Pastor Denver Bible Church
6 Judie Brown President American Life League
7 Amb. Alan Keyes (later publications; signed in own name)

§ 4 Organizations on this letter

6 distinct organizations and 7 named individuals, after normalizing renamed and affiliated entities.

Organizations

§ 5 Sources

Letter/statement text read from the organization’s own document.

coloradortl.org/human-events-adhttps://coloradortl.org/human-events-ad/
Primary source
coloradortl.org/pro-life-leaders-co…https://coloradortl.org/pro-life-leaders-condemning-the-pba-ruling/
Secondary
coloradortl.org/open-letter-to-dr-james-dobsonhttps://coloradortl.org/open-letter-to-dr-james-dobson/
Secondary
Editorial note The rubric records distance from the standard published by Abolitionists Rising, not a moral verdict; every organization scored here regards itself as pro-life. Scores are judgment calls applied consistently by the published rubric; a disagreement is a disagreement with the rubric's conventions, not with an individual cell.