Are Texas's abortion laws being used for state-sponsored spousal harassment? | Arwa Mahdawi

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    -98% Extremely Liberal

  • Reliability

    95% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

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"The lawsuit begins by stating: Under the law of Texas, a person who assists a pregnant woman in obtaining a self-managed abortion has committed the crime of murder and can be sued for wrongful death; it then goes on to cite sections of the Texas penal code that talk about homicide but don't mention abortion."
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-30% Liberal
"A shocking new bill in South Carolina would make anyone who gets an abortion subject to the state's homicide laws, including the death penalty."
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-36% Liberal
"The latest culprit: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas."
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8% Conservative
"It's been more than a decade since Hillary Clinton set up a private email server for the convenience of using her personal Blackberry instead of carrying a separate work device."
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-2% Liberal
"Records recently disclosed by DHS to our organization, Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF), reveal that, on at least one occasion, the agency's assistant secretary for public affairs sent work-related business to Mayorkas' unsecure personal email account last year, with Mayorkas replying back using that account."
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-2% Liberal
"Records recently disclosed by DHS to our organization, Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF), reveal that, on at least one occasion, the agency's assistant secretary for public affairs sent work-related business to Mayorkas' unsecure personal email account last year, with Mayorkas replying back using that account."
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-2% Liberal
"That's why AFPF filed another FOIA request last month to find out exactly how frequently Mayorkas is using his private email for government business, either intentionally or because other agency officials are messaging him."
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-10% Liberal
"Mayorkas' receipt of work-related email in his personal account may have been a one-off incident, but this seems unlikely given federal officials' track record and the general lack of transparency at the DHS."
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-12% Liberal
"The records about Mayorkas were disclosed and confirmed to AFPF under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as part of our ongoing investigation and lawsuit concerning the Disinformation Governance Board."
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-14% Liberal
"This isn't the first time Mayorkas and the DHS have had issues with the use of private email."
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-18% Liberal
"Back in 2014, the DHS baed the use of private-mail for personal use on agency computers, but granted waivers on a case-by-case basis to top leadership persoel, including then-Secretary Jeh Johnson and current secretary Mayorkas, who was then the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services."
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-26% Liberal
"Back in 2014, the DHS baed the use of private-mail for personal use on agency computers, but granted waivers on a case-by-case basis to top leadership persoel, including then-Secretary Jeh Johnson and current secretary Mayorkas, who was then the head of US Citizenship and Immigration Services."
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-26% Liberal
"Johnson was later forced to also review 26,000 of his private emails to make sure he turned over all official records to DHS."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"As the Clinton case illustrates, public officials using private email and messaging apps for government business is nothing new."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"Which is exactly what happened later in 2015 when the private emails of Johnson and then-CIA Director John Brean were hacked."
Negative
-42% Liberal
"Because from Clinton a decade ago to Mayorkas more recently, the track record of federal officials proves they may not always deserve the benefit of the doubt."
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-58% Liberal
"Because from Clinton a decade ago to Mayorkas more recently, the track record of federal officials proves they may not always deserve the benefit of the doubt."
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-58% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

35% : The lawsuit begins by stating: "Under the law of Texas, a person who assists a pregnant woman in obtaining a self-managed abortion has committed the crime of murder and can be sued for wrongful death"; it then goes on to cite sections of the Texas penal code that talk about homicide but don't mention abortion.
32% : A shocking new bill in South Carolina would make anyone who gets an abortion subject to the state's homicide laws, including the death penalty.

*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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