Abhortion for the abolition of abortion
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Letters/ Single-organization statement/ 2023

Students for Life Action / Kristan Hawkins denounces proposed prosecution of women in Alabama; "second victims" framing

PL-2023-004 · January 12, 2023 · formerly L18

Explicit opposition to a tenet Primary source Single-organization statement 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
January 12, 2023
Lead organization
Students for Life Action
Recipient
Alabama Attorney General / public
Topic
Prosecution of women
Type
Single-organization statement
Verification
Primary source
Signature rows
1
Completeness
Single organization
Letter No. 33 of 55 All letters

§ 1 Key language

“The pro-life movement opposes throwing mothers in jail, who we believe are the second victims of abortion” Students for Life Action, January 12, 2023

§ 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 Opposes prosecuting women.
D3 Incrementalism 1 By implication — a funding, drug, research, Hyde or Title X letter that takes no abolition position Implied.
D4 Opposition to abolition or equal-protection bills fault line 1 Implied, or support withheld Labels abolitionists "pro-prosecutionists".
D5 Framing 0 None —
D6 Secular framing 2 Wholly secular, legal, fiscal, medical or political argument 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 Kristan Hawkins President Students for Life Action

§ 4 Organizations on this letter

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

Organizations

Students for Life of America · Right-to-life group

§ 5 Sources

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

studentsforlifeaction.org/students-for-life-o…https://www.studentsforlifeaction.org/students-for-life-of-action-president-kristan-hawkins-denounces-the-proposed-prosecution-of-women-in-alabama/
Primary source
npr.orghttps://www.npr.org/
Secondary

§ 6 Notes

Legacy ID in the earlier research report: L18.

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.