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South Carolina Citizens for Life opposition to the Prenatal Equal Protection Act

PL-2023-001 · March 2023 · formerly L05

Explicit opposition to a tenet Secondary coverage only Single-organization statement 8 / 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
March 2023
Lead organization
South Carolina Citizens for Life
Recipient
South Carolina Legislature / press
Topic
State equal-protection bill
Type
Single-organization statement
Verification
Secondary coverage only
Signature rows
1
Completeness
Single organization
Letter No. 37 of 55 All letters

§ 1 Key language

“praised the incremental Human Life Protection Act instead” South Carolina Citizens for Life, March 2023

§ 2 Scorecard

Composite 8 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 Cites 2022 letter; opposes criminalizing women.
D3 Incrementalism 2 Explicitly endorses a regulatory or gestational bill instead of abolition Explicitly prefers incremental bill.
D4 Opposition to abolition or equal-protection bills fault line 2 Explicitly opposes or lobbies against one Opposes equal-protection bill.
D5 Framing 0 None —
D6 Secular framing 2 Wholly secular, legal, fiscal, medical or political argument Political 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 Holly Gatling Executive Director South Carolina Citizens for Life

§ 4 Organizations on this letter

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

Organizations

South Carolina Citizens for Life · Right-to-life group

§ 5 Sources

Only press coverage located.

americamagazine.org/politics-society/2023/03/16https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2023/03/16/
Secondary coverage only

§ 6 Notes

Legacy ID in the earlier research report: L05.

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.