A year post-'Dobbs,' major shifts in abortion access and politics

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    94% Extremely Conservative

  • Reliability

    100% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    98% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    58% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"A year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and Plaed Parenthood v. Casey and upending the legal scheme America relied on to govern reproductive rights for nearly 50 years."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Stabilizing treatment could include medical and/or surgical interventions, including abortion."
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-2% Liberal
"If a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the health or life of the pregnant person -- or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA's emergency medical condition definition -- that state law is preempted."
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-12% Liberal
"Democrats credit abortion with helping them keep control of the Senate and protecting against steep losses in the House in last year's midterm elections."
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-16% Liberal
"These restrictions have not just curtailed access to abortion for people with unwanted pregnancies."
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-18% Liberal
"But the overturning of Roe has made abortion extremism a liability for some Republicans."
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-18% Liberal
"It shows that abortion is severely restricted at all stages of pregnancy in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Teessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin."
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-24% Liberal
"And they plan to make it a major campaign issue in 2024, notes The Washington Post.Votes specifically related to abortion haven't always gone the way pro-lifers wanted, even in red states like Kansas."
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-24% Liberal
"Abortion is outlawed -- with few exceptions -- in 13 states, with care also unavailable in Wisconsin, where there are no official abortion providers."
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-26% Liberal
"As states rushed to pass new abortion bans post-Dobbs, or put old but unenforced ones into effect, women in many states lost access to abortion entirely or after just a few weeks of pregnancy:"
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-34% Liberal
"More than 28 million women of reproductive age live in states where abortion is baed, unavailable or restricted, with 2 million more in the two states where abortion is available but restrictions are pending...."
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-38% Liberal
"The Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration in a case involving immigrants being deported for obstruction of justice."
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-28% Liberal
"The Biden administration is currently investigating two hospitals that declined to perform an abortion on a Missouri woman whose health and life were threatened by pregnancy."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : A year ago Saturday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and upending the legal scheme America relied on to govern reproductive rights for nearly 50 years.
49% : "Stabilizing treatment could include medical and/or surgical interventions, including abortion.
44% : If a state law prohibits abortion and does not include an exception for the health or life of the pregnant person -- or draws the exception more narrowly than EMTALA's emergency medical condition definition -- that state law is preempted.
42% : "Democrats credit abortion with helping them keep control of the Senate and protecting against steep losses in the House in last year's midterm elections.
41% : These restrictions have not just curtailed access to abortion for people with unwanted pregnancies.
41% : But the overturning of Roe has made abortion extremism a liability for some Republicans.
38% : It shows that abortion is severely restricted at all stages of pregnancy in Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
38% : And they plan to make it a major campaign issue in 2024," notes The Washington Post.Votes specifically related to abortion haven't always gone the way pro-lifers wanted, even in red states like Kansas.
37% :Abortion is outlawed -- with few exceptions -- in 13 states, with care also unavailable in Wisconsin, where there are no official abortion providers.
33% : As states rushed to pass new abortion bans post-Dobbs, or put old but unenforced ones into effect, women in many states lost access to abortion entirely or after just a few weeks of pregnancy:
31% : More than 28 million women of reproductive age live in states where abortion is banned, unavailable or restricted, with 2 million more in the two states where abortion is available but restrictions are pending....

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