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NRLC letters to Congress supporting the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (20-week ban)

PL-2013-001 · November 1, 2013 · formerly L11

Explicit incrementalist endorsement Primary source Single-organization letter 6 / 12

Explicit incrementalist endorsement. Explicitly endorses a regulatory/gestational bill or exceptions as policy.

Shortfall type
Explicit incrementalist endorsement
Date
November 1, 2013
Lead organization
National Right to Life Committee
Recipient
U.S. Senate / House
Topic
Pain-capable (20-week) legislation
Type
Single-organization letter
Verification
Primary source
Signature rows
1
Completeness
Single organization
Letter No. 11 of 55 All letters

§ 1 Key language

“top congressional priority” National Right to Life Committee, November 1, 2013

§ 2 Scorecard

Composite 6 of 12 — explicit incrementalist endorsement. 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 2 Explicitly supports rape, incest or health exceptions Bill contains rape/incest/life exceptions.
D2 Immunity for the mother fault line 0 None —
D3 Incrementalism 2 Explicitly endorses a regulatory or gestational bill instead of abolition Gestational regulation rather than abolition.
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 Fetal-pain/secular 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

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

nrlc.org/communications/rele…https://nrlc.org/communications/releases/2013/release110113/
Primary source
nrlc.org/abortion/fetalpain/nrlctosenatepcucpahttps://nrlc.org/abortion/fetalpain/nrlctosenatepcucpa/
Secondary

§ 6 Notes

Series: reintroduced 2015, 2017, 2021.

Legacy ID in the earlier research report: L11.

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.