The Seattle Times Article RatingArizona Republicans again block effort to repeal 1864 abortion ban
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-20% Somewhat Liberal
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35% ReliableFair
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-10% Center
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76% Negative
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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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| "Anti-abortion activists, often conservative Christians, have become a force in many Republican-controlled statehouses, giving them outsize influence compared to abortion rights supporters, whose views align with more voters on the issue." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Before the session began Wednesday morning, the House gallery filled early, largely with anti-abortion supporters who came early at the direction of activist groups to oppose the repeal effort." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Repealing the law -- which allows only an exception to save the life of the mother and says doctors prosecuted under the law could face fines and prison terms of 2 to 5 years -- would revert Arizona to a 15-week abortion ban." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But Trump and Kari Lake, a U.S. Senate candidate and close Trump ally, said the court had overreached and urged the Legislature to act quickly." | Negative | -54% Liberal |
| "The last thing we should be doing today is rushing a bill through the legislative process to repeal a law that has been enacted and reaffirmed by the Legislature several times, state House Speaker Ben Toma, a Republican, said as he blocked an effort to vote on the repeal." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The fact that we will not even entertain a motion to allow those who have been raped or pregnant by incest to be able to have an abortion is extremely, extremely disappointing, state Rep. Alma Hernandez, a Democrat, said." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "PHOENIX -- State House Republicans in Arizona on Wednesday scuttled another effort to repeal the state's 1864 law baing abortion, defying pressure from prominent Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, who had urged them to toss the ban that many voters viewed as extreme and archaic." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "But Trump and Kari Lake, a U.S. Senate candidate and close Trump ally, said the court had overreached and urged the Legislature to act quickly." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
58% : Anti-abortion activists, often conservative Christians, have become a force in many Republican-controlled statehouses, giving them outsize influence compared to abortion rights supporters, whose views align with more voters on the issue.51% : Before the session began Wednesday morning, the House gallery filled early, largely with anti-abortion supporters who came early at the direction of activist groups to oppose the repeal effort.
39% : Repealing the law -- which allows only an exception to save the life of the mother and says doctors prosecuted under the law could face fines and prison terms of 2 to 5 years -- would revert Arizona to a 15-week abortion ban.
23% : But Trump and Kari Lake, a U.S. Senate candidate and close Trump ally, said the court had overreached and urged the Legislature to act quickly.
*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.