Mother Jones Article RatingDirect democracy -- and abortion rights -- win in Ohio
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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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| "Such strong polling isn't surprising, even in Ohio, where anti-abortion Republicans dominate the legislature and passed a 6-week abortion ban last year." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "The proposed amendment, which will go to voters on November 7, would guarantee individuals the right to make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one's own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "This trend has held true not just in blue states like California and Vermont, but also in deep-red Kansas and Kentucky, where voters last year rejected proposals to put no-right-to-abortion clauses in their state constitutions." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But in practice, Issue 1 was 100 percent about abortion, to quote Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Yet it does allow the legislature to ban abortion after the point of fetal viability, unless a doctor deems it necessary to protect a pregnant patient's health." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "On paper, the measure before voters on Tuesday had nothing to do with abortion." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Ohio voters not only turned out to protect abortion rights, but also to rebut the actions of the heavily gerrymandered GOP-controlled legislature, where Republicans hold 67 percent of seats in the state house and 79 percent in the state senate despite Trump wiing the state with 53 percent of the vote." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "In 2022, voters defeated election-denying candidates for top offices in the six battleground states where Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 results." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
57% :Such strong polling isn't surprising, even in Ohio, where anti-abortion Republicans dominate the legislature and passed a 6-week abortion ban last year.45% : The proposed amendment, which will go to voters on November 7, would guarantee individuals the right to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one's own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion."
43% : This trend has held true not just in blue states like California and Vermont, but also in deep-red Kansas and Kentucky, where voters last year rejected proposals to put no-right-to-abortion clauses in their state constitutions.
41% : But in practice, Issue 1 was "100 percent" about abortion, to quote Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose.
41% : Yet it does allow the legislature to ban abortion after the point of fetal viability, unless a doctor deems it necessary to protect a pregnant patient's health.
39% : On paper, the measure before voters on Tuesday had nothing to do with abortion.
*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.