Roanoke Times Article Rating- Bias Rating
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. 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.
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| "Polls show that most Americans want to preserve access to abortion in the earlier stages of pregnancy, but views are more nuanced and mixed when it comes to later-term abortions." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The draft court ruling on a case from Mississippi suggested the majority of conservative justices are prepared to end the federal right to abortion, leaving it to the states to decide." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "President Joe Biden said that Republicans have chosen to stand in the way of Americans' rights to make the most personal decisions about their own bodies, families and lives." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Security was tight at the Capitol where Vice President Kamala Harris presided, and it remained bolstered across the street at the Supreme Court after protesters turned out in force last week following the leaked draft." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden urged voters to elect more abortion-rights lawmakers in November and pledged in the meantime to explore other ways to secure the rights established in Roe." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "I plan to continue working with my colleagues on legislation to maintain - not expand or restrict - the current legal framework for abortion rights in this country, Collins said in a statement." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Both of the Republican senators, who voted to confirm most of former President Donald Trump's justices, are in talks over alternatives." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Harris can provide a tie-breaking vote in the 50-50 split Senate, but that was beside the point on Wednesday." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., said that most American women have only known a world where abortion access was guaranteed but could face a future with fewer rights than their mothers or grandmothers." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But the bill has languished in the Senate, evenly split with bare Democratic control because of Harris' ability to cast a tie-braking vote." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "This issue will be dealt with at the state level, McCoell said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The two Republican senators who support abortion access -- Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who faces her own reelection in November, and Susan Collins of Maine -- were also no votes, having proposed their own more tailored approach to counter the Supreme Court's potential action." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The two Republican senators who support abortion access -- Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who faces her own reelection in November, and Susan Collins of Maine -- were also no votes, having proposed their own more tailored approach to counter the Supreme Court's potential action." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Senate Republican leader Mitch McCoell, an architect of the effort to install conservative justices on the Supreme Court -- including three during the Trump era -- has sought to downplay the outcome of any potential changes in federal abortion policy." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Senate Republican leader Mitch McCoell, an architect of the effort to install conservative justices on the Supreme Court -- including three during the Trump era -- has sought to downplay the outcome of any potential changes in federal abortion policy." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But Democrats have largely paed the Collins-Murkowski effort as insufficient." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The Senate is not where the majority of Americans are on this issue, Harris said afterward." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
44% : Polls show that most Americans want to preserve access to abortion in the earlier stages of pregnancy, but views are more nuanced and mixed when it comes to later-term abortions.41% : The draft court ruling on a case from Mississippi suggested the majority of conservative justices are prepared to end the federal right to abortion, leaving it to the states to decide.
*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.