Live: House votes to restore abortion rights

Jul 16, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    76% Extremely Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    84% Extremely Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

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  •   Conservative
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"At a press briefing ahead of the vote, Pelosi echoed the White House in urging women to make abortion a key issue in the midterm elections."
Negative
-62% Liberal
"GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, who supports instituting a nationwide ban on abortion, accused his colleagues across the aisle of seeking to inflame the issue of abortion."
Negative
-86% Liberal
"I have no question about this administration's support for a woman's right to choose and to take the necessary actions to ensure that this is something that is core to who we are, Pelosi said."
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0% Conservative
"Congress has the authority and the responsibility today to protect people from these unconstitutional efforts to prevent or restrict, impede or otherwise to punish people traveling to another state to obtain a legal abortion and to protect the health care providers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said on Friday."
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-4% Liberal
"We already know what's happened, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday on the Senate floor.Should the next little 10-year-old's right or 12-year-old's right or 14-year-old's right to get the care that she desperately needs be put in jeopardy?Republicans spoke forcefully against the legislation, praising the Supreme Court's decision and denouncing the bills as extreme."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"He said proponents of the travel bill should ask themselves, Does the child in the womb have the right to travel in their future?Washington GOP Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said the Democratic legislation has nothing to do with protecting the health of women."
Negative
-6% Liberal
"The bill takes Roe v. Wade into the law of the land and protects it from some of the assaults that have occurred since it became overturned by the Supreme Court, Pelosi said."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Senators Murkowski and Senator Collins may have their view, but it is not one about a woman having the right to decide, Pelosi said."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Pelosi said that she was not going to negotiate a slimmer abortion rights bill that could potentially get through the Senate."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Only two Senate Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, have been supportive of abortion rights, but they do not support the Democrats' proposal, calling it too far-reaching."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"Only two Senate Republicans, Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, have been supportive of abortion rights, but they do not support the Democrats' proposal, calling it too far-reaching."
Negative
-36% Liberal
"At a press briefing ahead of the vote, Pelosi echoed the White House in urging women to make abortion a key issue in the midterm elections."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, who supports instituting a nationwide ban on abortion, accused his colleagues across the aisle of seeking to inflame the issue of abortion."
Negative
-40% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

19% : At a press briefing ahead of the vote, Pelosi echoed the White House in urging women to make abortion a key issue in the midterm elections.
7% : GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, who supports instituting a nationwide ban on abortion, accused his colleagues across the aisle of seeking to "inflame" the issue of 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.

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