---
title: "SBA List-led coalition letter to President Obama on health-care reform abortion funding"
description: "Coalition letter from Susan B. Anthony List, 2009, to President Barack Obama. Composite 3/12 — incrementalist by implication. “exclude abortion and abortion funding from federal health-care legislation”"
type: "letter"
letter_id: "PL-2009-001"
date: "2009"
letter_type: "Coalition letter"
lead_org: "Susan B. Anthony List"
recipient: "President Barack Obama"
topic: "Federal health-care reform / abortion funding"
shortfall_type: "incrementalist_by_implication"
composite: 3
verification: "secondary"
signature_rows: 0
primary_url: "https://sbaprolife.org/"
source_url: "https://www.abhortion.org/letters/pl-2009-001.html"
---

# SBA List-led coalition letter to President Obama on health-care reform abortion funding

**Coalition letter** · 2009 · Incrementalist by implication · composite 3 / 12 · Secondary coverage only

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Letter ID | PL-2009-001 |
| Date | 2009 |
| Lead organization | [Susan B. Anthony List](../letters/orgs/o001.md) |
| Recipient | President Barack Obama |
| Topic | Federal health-care reform / abortion funding |
| Type | Coalition letter |
| Verification | Secondary coverage only |
| Signature rows | None recovered |
| Completeness | Signature block not recovered |

## Key language

> “exclude abortion and abortion funding from federal health-care legislation” — Susan B. Anthony List, 2009

## Scorecard

Composite **3 of 12** — incrementalist by implication. Each dimension is scored 0 (none), 1 (implied) or 2 (explicit); the rationale is the editor's one-line reason for every non-zero score. D2 and D4 are the fault line the abolitionist critique cares most about.

| Dimension | Score | Meaning at this score | Rationale |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | Seeks regulation/defunding/enforcement rather than abolition; takes no position on equal protection. |
| D4 Opposition to abolition or equal-protection bills (fault line) | 0 | None | — |
| D5 Framing | 0 | None | — |
| D6 Secular framing | 2 | Wholly secular, legal, fiscal, medical or political argument | Argued on fiscal, legal, medical or political grounds rather than Scripture/Gospel. |

## Signatories

**Signature block not recovered.** A letter record exists but the signature block was not located; no signature rows.

## Sources

- [sbaprolife.org](https://sbaprolife.org/) — Secondary coverage only (https://sbaprolife.org/)

## Notes

Letter and signers not recovered.

## 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.