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NRLC Post-Roe Model Abortion Law (Bopp memorandum)

PL-2022-005 · June 15, 2022 · formerly L10

Explicit opposition to a tenet Primary source Model legislation 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
June 15, 2022
Lead organization
National Right to Life Committee
Recipient
State legislators
Topic
Model post-Roe statute
Type
Model legislation
Verification
Primary source
Signature rows
1
Completeness
Single organization
Letter No. 32 of 55 All letters

§ 1 Key language

“does not criminalize the woman” National Right to Life Committee, June 15, 2022

§ 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 2 Explicitly opposes prosecuting or criminalizing women Model law exempts the woman by design.
D3 Incrementalism 1 By implication — a funding, drug, research, Hyde or Title X letter that takes no abolition position Regulatory scaffolding rather than homicide-code equal protection.
D4 Opposition to abolition or equal-protection bills fault line 0 None —
D5 Framing 1 Implied State-legislature framing.
D6 Secular framing 2 Wholly secular, legal, fiscal, medical or political argument 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 James Bopp, Jr. General Counsel National Right to Life Committee

§ 4 Organizations on this letter

1 distinct organization and 1 named individual, 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/nati…https://nrlc.org/communications/national-right-to-life-committee-proposes-legislation-to-protect-the-unborn-post-roe/
Primary source
bopplaw.comhttps://www.bopplaw.com/
Secondary

§ 6 Notes

Legacy ID in the earlier research report: L10.

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.