OPINION | ART HOBSON: On abortion, the political debate is full of misconceptions

Aug 31, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    60% Very Conservative

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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.

Sentiments

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"I conclude that it's a mistake to make viability an issue in the political discussion of abortion."
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-32% Liberal
"My own commentary on this is that religious opponents of abortion make a monumental mistake by assigning spiritual value to a zygote."
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-34% Liberal
"However, on one occasion, rather than discussing affairs of state at one of their audiences, the Queen and Mr Macmillan could be seen huddled over a transistor radio as US astronaut John Gle was hurtling through space."
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4% Conservative
"Mr Cameron was caught on camera telling then New York mayor Michael Bloomberg that the monarch had purred down the line when he telephoned and told her the result of the Scottish independence referendum."
Negative
-8% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

34% : I conclude that it's a mistake to make viability an issue in the political discussion of abortion.
33% : My own commentary on this is that religious opponents of abortion make a monumental mistake by assigning "spiritual" value to a zygote.

*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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