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NRLC non-support / opposition to Colorado Amendment 48 (personhood)

PL-2008-002 · 2008 · formerly L19

Explicit opposition to a tenet Secondary coverage only Single-organization statement 6 / 12

Explicit opposition to a tenet. Takes a position directly contrary to an Abolitionists Rising tenet (exceptions, mother-immunity, opposing an abolition bill).

Shortfall type
Explicit opposition to a tenet
Date
2008
Lead organization
National Right to Life Committee
Recipient
Colorado voters / press
Topic
Personhood amendment
Type
Single-organization statement
Verification
Secondary coverage only
Signature rows
1
Completeness
Single organization
Letter No. 07 of 55 All letters

§ 1 Key language

“declined to support the personhood amendment” National Right to Life Committee, 2008

§ 2 Scorecard

Composite 6 of 12 — explicit opposition to a tenet. Each dimension is scored 0 (none), 1 (implied) or 2 (explicit); the rationale column is the editor's one-line reason for every non-zero score.

DimensionScoreMeaning at this scoreRationale
D1 Exceptions 0 None —
D2 Immunity for the mother fault line 0 None —
D3 Incrementalism 1 By implication — a funding, drug, research, Hyde or Title X letter that takes no abolition position Preferred incremental strategy.
D4 Opposition to abolition or equal-protection bills fault line 2 Explicitly opposes or lobbies against one Withheld support from / opposed an equal-protection (personhood) measure.
D5 Framing 1 Implied Viability-in-court pragmatism.
D6 Secular framing 2 Wholly secular, legal, fiscal, medical or political argument Strategic/legal framing.

§ 3 Spokesperson

1 signature row · Single organization. A single-organization record; the spokesperson row is illustrative, not a signature block.

#Name as printedTitle as printedOrganization as printed
1 — — National Right to Life Committee

§ 4 Organizations on this letter

1 distinct organization, after normalizing renamed and affiliated entities.

Organizations

National Right to Life Committee · Right-to-life group

§ 5 Sources

Only press coverage located.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Colorado_Amendment_48https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Colorado_Amendment_48
Secondary coverage only

§ 6 Notes

Primary NRLC statement not yet located.

Legacy ID in the earlier research report: L19.

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. This record is verified from secondary coverage only: the primary text has not yet been located, and its scores rest on language quoted in press coverage. 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.