Federal judges grill Biden administration on abortion pill

May 17, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    36% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"Ho called abortion a moral tragedy in a 2018 opinion."
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-38% Liberal
"Wilson is a longtime critic of the Roe decision, and voted while in the Mississippi state legislature to ban abortion at 15 and at 6 weeks of pregnancy and to strip funding from Plaed Parenthood."
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-44% Liberal
"During a hearing here before a panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the judges - all of whom are Republican appointees-grilled attorneys from the Biden administration and Danco, the pill's manufacturer, who are battling to keep the drug available in the U.S.Judge James Ho began sparring with Justice Department attorney Sarah Harrington just seconds into her argument, challenging her for describing the legal dispute over the abortion pill as the first of its kind."
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-2% Liberal
"But Judge Cory Wilson, also a Trump appointee, said steps FDA has taken in recent years to broaden the availability of mifepristone made it more likely that patients would show up in an emergency room to address complications."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"FDA can make that determination based on exercising its own scientific expertise, but it's not a court's role to come in and second-guess that expertise.I guess I'm wondering, why not just focus on the facts of this case, rather than have this sort of FDA-can-do-no-wrong theme, countered Ho, an appointee of President Donald Trump."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"In briefs filed with the appeals court, the Biden administration said some of the claims in the case are based on speculation that the doctors could be hit with malpractice charges in the future if they refuse to treat patients who took the pills."
Negative
-16% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

31% : Ho called abortion a "moral tragedy" in a 2018 opinion.
28% : Wilson is a longtime critic of the Roe decision, and voted while in the Mississippi state legislature to ban abortion at 15 and at 6 weeks of pregnancy and to strip funding from Planned Parenthood.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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