NY Times Article RatingOpinion | Abortion Rights and Democracy Are Being Put to the Test in Ohio
Aug 07, 2023 View Original Article
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| "Similarly, Republican lawmakers in Missouri, North Dakota and Mississippi have gone to great lengths to try to twist and reshape the rules around state voter initiatives, in each instance apparently to limit voters' ability to directly register their preferences on abortion and reproductive rights." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Instead, the long-term goal is to prohibit abortion as widely and as completely as possible." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "In the Dobbs majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the conclusion in Roe that the Constitution protected the right to abortion had stripped the American people of the power to address a question of profound moral and social importance." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Supporters of reproductive freedom across the country must continue to flock to the polls to defeat efforts to throttle democratic processes where they are being used to limit democratic deliberation on abortion." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "In that time, more than a dozen states have baed abortion, through the enforcement of pre-Roe abortion bans or the enactment of new ones." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "That's especially true at this moment, with grossly gerrymandered legislatures passing draconian bans that endanger women's health and freedom -- and with threats to democracy extending well beyond the topic of abortion." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "On this logic, the Dobbs decision merely corrected an egregious error, returning the power to regulate abortion to the people and their elected representatives." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Since the fall of Roe, every time Americans have gone to the polls to vote directly on matters of abortion, they have voted to protect reproductive rights, expanding protections for abortion access and rejecting efforts to roll back access to abortion." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Viewed together, these efforts paint a disturbing portrait of Republican officials who are afraid of their constituents when it comes to abortion and who are taking increasingly aggressive steps to prevent voters from making their voices heard." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "But the episode should serve as a reminder that despite the Supreme Court's claim that Dobbs merely returned the question of abortion to the states, for opponents of abortion, allowing the residents of each state to decide this issue for themselves was never the goal, at least not in the long term." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Since taking the majority, House Republicans have worked tirelessly to achieve win after win, Scalise said, noting that the legislation was outlined in Commitment to America, the GOP platform for midterm congressional elections last fall." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "But Scalise points out that the Republican-led 118th Congress has sent a dozen bills thus far to President Joe Biden, more than the seven bills the Democrat-led 117th Congress had sent at this point to the president." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Seven months into the 118th Congress, the Republican House majority has passed more rule bills and sent more rule bills to the desk of the president than the Democrat majority in the 117th Congress did in seven months with one-party control of the House, Senate, and White House, said Scalise, R-Jefferson." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Biden signed the resolution into law on March 20." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Only four Democrats, for instance, joined the 225-204 vote to advance H.R. 1, Scalise's bill to increase domestic energy production and reduce regulatory hurdles." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The House and Senate are worlds apart when it comes to the appropriations process, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, said during a July 27 news conference prior to Congress leaving town for the month of August." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Then Biden, who had long supported District home rule, tweeted: If the Senate votes to overturn what D.C. Council did -- I'll sign it." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "WASHINGTON -- Though described as dysfunctional, the 118th Congress had considerable wins in the first half of its first year, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Back in January, before he officially became the chamber's second-highest ranking member, Scalise acknowledged that Republican-passed House legislation could be stalled in the Democratic-majority Senate, but said he felt Congress's positions should be debated publicly." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But McCarthy has just two weeks to strike a compromise, and he must convince his majority to play ball, particularly the right-wingers who want deeper spending cuts." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "I don't want to see a government shutdown, McCarthy said during his July 27 news conference." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It took 16 ballots to elect a speaker in January, a deal in May between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden to avoid a historic default is still giving some House conservatives heartburn, and a cadre of super-conservative representatives were able to stall votes in June on bills that other conservatives wanted." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "It took 16 ballots to elect a speaker in January, a deal in May between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden to avoid a historic default is still giving some House conservatives heartburn, and a cadre of super-conservative representatives were able to stall votes in June on bills that other conservatives wanted." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
45% : Similarly, Republican lawmakers in Missouri, North Dakota and Mississippi have gone to great lengths to try to twist and reshape the rules around state voter initiatives, in each instance apparently to limit voters' ability to directly register their preferences on abortion and reproductive rights.40% : Instead, the long-term goal is to prohibit abortion as widely and as completely as possible.
39% : In the Dobbs majority opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the conclusion in Roe that the Constitution protected the right to abortion had stripped the American people of "the power to address a question of profound moral and social importance."
38% : Supporters of reproductive freedom across the country must continue to flock to the polls to defeat efforts to throttle democratic processes where they are being used to limit democratic deliberation on abortion.
34% : In that time, more than a dozen states have banned abortion, through the enforcement of pre-Roe abortion bans or the enactment of new ones.
34% : That's especially true at this moment, with grossly gerrymandered legislatures passing draconian bans that endanger women's health and freedom -- and with threats to democracy extending well beyond the topic of abortion.
33% : On this logic, the Dobbs decision merely corrected an egregious error, returning the power to regulate abortion "to the people and their elected representatives."
32% : Since the fall of Roe, every time Americans have gone to the polls to vote directly on matters of abortion, they have voted to protect reproductive rights, expanding protections for abortion access and rejecting efforts to roll back access to abortion.
31% :Viewed together, these efforts paint a disturbing portrait of Republican officials who are afraid of their constituents when it comes to abortion and who are taking increasingly aggressive steps to prevent voters from making their voices heard.
29% : But the episode should serve as a reminder that despite the Supreme Court's claim that Dobbs merely returned the question of abortion to the states, for opponents of abortion, allowing the residents of each state to decide this issue for themselves was never the goal, at least not in the long term.
*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.