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Nearly 200 House Republicans Vote No On Bill Keeping Contraceptives Legal

Jul 23, 2022 View Original Article
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    -12% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -58% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : In order to further public health and to combat efforts to restrict access to reproductive health care, congressional action is necessary to protect access to contraceptives, contraception, and information related to contraception for everyone, regardless of actual or perceived race, ethnicity, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), income, disability, national origin, immigration status, or geography. ...
49% : In a concurring opinion in that case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Justice Clarence Thomas said other landmark privacy cases should also be reconsidered, including Obergefell v. Hodges, which affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry, and Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 case in which the court affirmed that married couples had the right to contraception.
36% : "In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents," Thomas wrote, adding that the court has a "a duty to 'correct the error' established in those precedents."Rep. Kathy Manning, the North Carolina Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said ahead of the vote, "The Supreme Court's decision stripping away the right to abortion has emboldened extremist attacks on women's freedoms.
35% : Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called the bill "the Payouts for Planned Parenthood Act" and said in a floor speech on July 18, "Unfortunately, today, rather than work with us, Democrats are again spreading fear and misinformation in an attempt to pass a poorly drafted bill, which opens the door further to their extreme abortion-on-demand agenda. ...

*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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