EXPLAINER: Abortion landscape under state 'heartbeat' laws

Jun 30, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -12% Somewhat Liberal

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    60% Very Conservative

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Bias Score Analysis

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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"That terminology -- used widely in anti-abortion legislation across the country -- does not easily translate to medical science."
Positive
24% Conservative
"At the request of Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, a federal judge lifted the stay that had prevented enforcement since the law was signed in 2019."
Positive
2% Conservative
"The American Civil Liberties Union and Plaed Parenthood sued in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of a group of abortion providers Wednesday, arguing the law also violates the state constitution."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"Teessee's other abortion ban, known as the so-called trigger ban, is set to restrict abortion in that state almost entirely in less than a month."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Q: IS ABORTION"
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Most heartbeat laws make no mention of a particular gestational age after which abortion is illegal."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"After leaving the stage, Trump returned to his motorcade under the apparent belief that he would then be taken to the Capitol -- a belief that Meadows, despite the warnings from Cipollone and others, had done nothing to undercut."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"After leaving the stage, Trump returned to his motorcade under the apparent belief that he would then be taken to the Capitol -- a belief that Meadows, despite the warnings from Cipollone and others, had done nothing to undercut."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Cassidy Hutchinson, a young former aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, in two hours of direct, documented testimony, laid out how the divisive president knew many of the unruly mob of his supporters were heavily armed with AR-15 assault-style weapons, Glock semi-automatic handguns and more and ready for violent action that he wanted to lead into the Capitol as an insurrection to overturn a legal election that defeated him in the 2020 presidential election."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Cassidy Hutchinson, a young former aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, in two hours of direct, documented testimony, laid out how the divisive president knew many of the unruly mob of his supporters were heavily armed with AR-15 assault-style weapons, Glock semi-automatic handguns and more and ready for violent action that he wanted to lead into the Capitol as an insurrection to overturn a legal election that defeated him in the 2020 presidential election."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel, and when Mr. Ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"Hutchinson described being told by Ornato what had happened next: Trump got into an armored presidential vehicle with Robert Engel, the chief of his Secret Service security detail."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"Hutchinson detailed Trump's anger over what he felt was smaller than he felt he deserved, crowd when he spoke on Jan, 6 and said he wanted the Secret Service agents to stop using the metal-detecting magnetometers that would stop those who were armed."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"It was not secure, and Trump would have to return to the White House."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"We are all in her debt, declared Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the Select Committee."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"As The Washington Post reported:Hutchinson's testimony painted a consistent and unflattering portrait of Meadows, the former congressman turned Trump acolyte who left the House to become chief of staff."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"As The Washington Post reported:Hutchinson's testimony painted a consistent and unflattering portrait of Meadows, the former congressman turned Trump acolyte who left the House to become chief of staff."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"But she said Trump's anger had yet to peak."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Hutchinson's vivid testimony showed a 25-year-old aide has more guts and more concern about democracy than too many of the pretentious acolytes who continue to embrace the corrupt, criminal Trump."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"I'm the fucking president, the vile, vulgar maniac declared to a Secret Service agent as Trump tried to force him to drive him to the Capitol and not back to the White House on that day of infamy, Jan. 6, 2021."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Engel, according to Hutchinson's account, then told Trump he could not travel to the Capitol."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"An abruptly scheduled special hearing of the Select Committee of the House of Representatives on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation promised what some felt might be a smoking gun in the probe of the criminal and seditious actions of former corrupt president Donald Trump on Tuesday."
Negative
-40% Liberal
"Hutchinson has not spoken to Meadows since early 2021, and has lost touch with most of the other figures in the Trump and Meadows orbit, people familiar with the matter said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"Hutchinson has not spoken to Meadows since early 2021, and has lost touch with most of the other figures in the Trump and Meadows orbit, people familiar with the matter said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly."
Negative
-48% Liberal
"She also told how Meadows, a former member of Congress, appeared lost and unable to cope with Trump."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"She also told how Meadows, a former member of Congress, appeared lost and unable to cope with Trump."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"The three agents do not dispute Hutchinson's account that Trump was furious upon learning they were not taking him to the Capitol and exchanged tense words with Engel when the detail leaders told him it would be unsafe and impossible to go the Capitol alongside Trump's supporters."
Negative
-50% Liberal
"The three agents do not dispute Hutchinson's account that Trump was furious upon learning they were not taking him to the Capitol and exchanged tense words with Engel when the detail leaders told him it would be unsafe and impossible to go the Capitol alongside Trump's supporters."
Negative
-50% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : That terminology -- used widely in anti-abortion legislation across the country -- does not easily translate to medical science.
51% : At the request of Republican Attorney General Dave Yost, a federal judge lifted the stay that had prevented enforcement since the law was signed in 2019.
42% : The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood sued in the Ohio Supreme Court on behalf of a group of abortion providers Wednesday, arguing the law also violates the state constitution.
40% : Tennessee's other abortion ban, known as the so-called trigger ban, is set to restrict abortion in that state almost entirely in less than a month.
38% : Q: IS ABORTION
35% : Most "heartbeat" laws make no mention of a particular gestational age after which abortion is illegal.

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