It's impossible to wall off reversing Roe from landmark marriage and contraception rulings - KION546

May 05, 2022 View Original Article
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  • Policy Leaning

    92% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    66% Negative

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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"The Constitution says nothing about a right to same-sex marriage, but the Court holds that the term 'liberty' in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment encompasses this right, he said in dissent in language similar to his draft majority opinion on Roe."
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-8% Liberal
"Alito himself voted against the right to same-sex marriage when that case was decided in 2015."
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-10% Liberal
"If there's a majority of justices no longer willing to recognize such a right in the context of abortion -- indeed, who believe the court should never have recognized it -- then that calls into question those other rights, as well, he said."
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-18% Liberal
"But he added: The news is not as good for those who hope to preserve the court-invented rights to homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage."
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-26% Liberal
"But critics of the draft decision will take cold comfort in Alito's words attempting to wall off abortion from everything else."
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-30% Liberal
"Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the same-sex marriage case, who is now trying to enter politics, said in an interview with CNN that Alito's draft opinion scares him for that reason."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"In the draft, Alito said that what sharply distinguishes Roe, and the 1992 follow-up Casey v. Plaed Parenthood, from those other cases is that abortion destroys potential life.None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey, involved the critical moral question posed by abortion, he said."
Negative
-44% Liberal
"These attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one's 'concept of existence' prove too much, Alito wrote."
Negative
-44% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : "The Constitution says nothing about a right to same-sex marriage, but the Court holds that the term 'liberty' in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment encompasses this right," he said in dissent in language similar to his draft majority opinion on Roe.
45% : Alito himself voted against the right to same-sex marriage when that case was decided in 2015.
41% : "If there's a majority of justices no longer willing to recognize such a right in the context of abortion -- indeed, who believe the court should never have recognized it -- then that calls into question those other rights, as well," he said.
37% : But he added: "The news is not as good for those who hope to preserve the court-invented rights to homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage."
35% : But critics of the draft decision will take cold comfort in Alito's words attempting to wall off abortion from everything else.
35% :Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the same-sex marriage case, who is now trying to enter politics, said in an interview with CNN that Alito's draft opinion "scares" him for that reason.
28% : In the draft, Alito said that what "sharply distinguishes" Roe, and the 1992 follow-up Casey v. Planned Parenthood, from those other cases is that abortion destroys "potential life.""None of the other decisions cited by Roe and Casey, involved the critical moral question posed by abortion," he said.
28% : "These attempts to justify abortion through appeals to a broader right to autonomy and to define one's 'concept of existence' prove too much," Alito wrote.

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