The Columbian Article RatingIn election, support for abortion rights was about much more
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| "The key issues for me are the preservation of democracy and voter rights, Mosko said, because without that we can't preserve women's access to reproductive freedom.Voters in California and Vermont also chose to enshrine abortion protections in their state constitutions on Tuesday, while voters in Kentucky and Montana rejected anti-abortion amendments." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Democrats also championed a successful ballot measure that enshrines the right to abortion in the state constitution." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "A government dominated by Republicans, Cohen said, would have gone on to impede contraception, to impede marriage equality, to impede any kind of civil rights that we as a society have fought for in the past 50 years." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Abortion may have made the difference in some key races where the elections were really competitive, said Ashley Kirzinger, director of survey methodology at KFF, which designed questions for and published an analysis of VoteCast." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "In the midterm elections, she lists a woman's right to abortion as one of many fleeting freedoms she voted to defend." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "She cared about inflation, border security and the whole LGBT alphabet issue -- in particular, opposing transgender rights for youth." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Still, for many women, the country's inflation woes outweigh abortion." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "But they also cast their Republican rivals' extreme attitudes on abortion as one example of a broader threat to the country's democratic institutions, including its election systems." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "More women also said the reversal made them angry, and said abortion had a major impact on their decision to turn out and which candidate they supported." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "In interviews with AP reporters, many women linked their concerns about abortion to fears for the country." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Cohen, 68, feared the Supreme Court's decision in June to eliminate women's constitutional protections for abortion was only the begiing of a broader erosion of rights." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "In Ohio, Trump-endorsed JD Vance won an open U.S. Senate seat, and the GOP swept statewide offices." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Three conservative victories on Ohio's Supreme Court, plus an upcoming appointment by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, mean that ban is likely to come before a court with a 4-3 GOP majority." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "That's a major reason she voted Democratic up and down the ticket, including for Sen. Raphael Warnock, whose hotly contested U.S. Senate race is advancing to a runoff with his Republican rival, the former football star Herschel Walker." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "So she backed Democrats in her state of Pesylvania, where the party flipped a U.S. Senate seat and won the contest for governor against a pair of Donald Trump loyalists." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
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56% : "The key issues for me are the preservation of democracy and voter rights," Mosko said, "because without that we can't preserve women's access to reproductive freedom."Voters in California and Vermont also chose to enshrine abortion protections in their state constitutions on Tuesday, while voters in Kentucky and Montana rejected anti-abortion amendments.46% : Democrats also championed a successful ballot measure that enshrines the right to abortion in the state constitution.
45% : A government dominated by Republicans, Cohen said, "would have gone on to impede contraception, to impede marriage equality, to impede any kind of civil rights that we as a society have fought for in the past 50 years."
45% :Abortion "may have made the difference in some key races where the elections were really competitive," said Ashley Kirzinger, director of survey methodology at KFF, which designed questions for and published an analysis of VoteCast.
42% : In the midterm elections, she lists a woman's right to abortion as one of many fleeting freedoms she voted to defend.
42% : She cared about inflation, border security and "the whole LGBT alphabet issue" -- in particular, opposing transgender rights for youth.
41% : Still, for many women, the country's inflation woes outweigh abortion.
40% : But they also cast their Republican rivals' "extreme" attitudes on abortion as one example of a broader threat to the country's democratic institutions, including its election systems.
39% : More women also said the reversal made them angry, and said abortion had a major impact on their decision to turn out and which candidate they supported.
39% : In interviews with AP reporters, many women linked their concerns about abortion to fears for the country.
36% : Cohen, 68, feared the Supreme Court's decision in June to eliminate women's constitutional protections for abortion was only the beginning of a broader erosion of rights.
*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.