---
title: "NRLC Post-Roe Model Abortion Law (Bopp memorandum)"
description: "Model legislation from National Right to Life Committee, June 15, 2022, to State legislators. Composite 6/12 — explicit opposition to a tenet. “does not criminalize the woman”"
type: "letter"
letter_id: "PL-2022-005"
date: "2022-06-15"
letter_type: "Model legislation"
lead_org: "National Right to Life Committee"
recipient: "State legislators"
topic: "Model post-Roe statute"
shortfall_type: "explicit_opposition_to_tenet"
composite: 6
verification: "primary"
signature_rows: 1
primary_url: "https://nrlc.org/communications/national-right-to-life-committee-proposes-legislation-to-protect-the-unborn-post-roe/"
source_url: "https://www.abhortion.org/letters/pl-2022-005.html"
---

# NRLC Post-Roe Model Abortion Law (Bopp memorandum)

**Model legislation** · June 15, 2022 · Explicit opposition to a tenet · composite 6 / 12 · Primary source

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Letter ID | PL-2022-005 (formerly L10) |
| Date | June 15, 2022 |
| Lead organization | [National Right to Life Committee](../letters/orgs/o074.md) |
| Recipient | State legislators |
| Topic | Model post-Roe statute |
| Type | Model legislation |
| Verification | Primary source |
| Signature rows | 1 |
| Completeness | Single organization |

## Key language

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

## Scorecard

Composite **6 of 12** — explicit opposition to a tenet. 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) | 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. |

## Spokesperson

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

| # | Name as printed | Title as printed | Organization as printed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [James Bopp, Jr.](../letters/people/i0524.md) | General Counsel | [National Right to Life Committee](../letters/orgs/o074.md) |

## Organizations on this letter

1 distinct organization and 1 named individual, after normalizing renamed and affiliated entities.

- [National Right to Life Committee](../letters/orgs/o074.md) — Right-to-life group

## Sources

- [nrlc.org/communications/nati…](https://nrlc.org/communications/national-right-to-life-committee-proposes-legislation-to-protect-the-unborn-post-roe/) — Primary source (https://nrlc.org/communications/national-right-to-life-committee-proposes-legislation-to-protect-the-unborn-post-roe/)
- [bopplaw.com](https://www.bopplaw.com/) — secondary (https://www.bopplaw.com/)

## 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.