After Alabama ruling upends IVF, top health official warns of more consequences

Feb 28, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    58% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Overall Sentiment

10% Positive

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"Becerra said he believed more states could not only start restricting IVF but access to other reproductive health care like birth control, too.Ask anyone who's going through the IVF process, has paid tens of thousands of dollars, and now can't move forward."
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-6% Liberal
"It blows my mind that women who vote regularly, who want a family so badly, who are willing to spend $50,000 to $100,000 and take a shot every day -- that that's the demographic that they want to rile up ahead of November elections, Chase said."
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-6% Liberal
"All of this is unclear, Becerra, the first federal official on the ground in Alabama since the ruling, told ABC News in an exclusive interview."
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16% Conservative
"Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, threw her support behind the bill."
Positive
4% Conservative
"On the heels of meetings with women who had their in vitro fertilisation treatments halted in Alabama, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said on Tuesday that it's unclear how and at what expense the chaos wrought by a recent state Supreme Court decision will get resolved."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Of course, Becerra said."
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-4% Liberal
"Becerra said he believed more states could not only start restricting IVF but access to other reproductive health care like birth control, too.Ask anyone who's going through the IVF process, has paid tens of thousands of dollars, and now can't move forward."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The Legislature is diligently working on addressing these issues as we speak, and I anticipate having a bill on my desk very shortly while ensuring that the Legislature has time to get this right, Ivey told reporters on Tuesday."
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-8% Liberal
"At the federal level, Biden administration officials have yet to aounce significant policy options to safeguard IVF access in Alabama, insisting that their options to use executive action to protect abortion and reproductive rights, including in ways that would keep IVF intact, are limited."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"We're trying to hear what people are trying to tell us, Becerra said."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Top Washington Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham are challenging that view as partisan hyperbole, calling it the last thing they want, but Becerra said there is too much uncertainty rippling out from the new decision."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Top Washington Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham are challenging that view as partisan hyperbole, calling it the last thing they want, but Becerra said there is too much uncertainty rippling out from the new decision."
Negative
-6% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Becerra said he believed more states could not only start restricting IVF but access to other reproductive health care like birth control, too."Ask anyone who's going through the IVF process, has paid tens of thousands of dollars, and now can't move forward.
47% : "It blows my mind that women who vote regularly, who want a family so badly, who are willing to spend $50,000 to $100,000 and take a shot every day -- that that's the demographic that they want to rile up ahead of November elections," Chase said.

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