Beaumont Enterprise Article RatingOPINION: Sen. Nichols shows GOP flexibility on abortion
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| "But the plain truth is that the old-style opposition to any form of abortion is out of touch with how most Texans feel - again, including many Republican voters." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Yet much to their surprise, they found out that many voters - including many Republican voters - didn't want the total ban on abortion that had been a centerpiece of GOP platforms for decades." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Many other pro-life voters want abortion available for pregnancies involving rape or incest or to save the life of the mother." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
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48% : But the plain truth is that the old-style opposition to any form of abortion is out of touch with how most Texans feel - again, including many Republican voters.44% : Yet much to their surprise, they found out that many voters - including many Republican voters - didn't want the total ban on abortion that had been a centerpiece of GOP platforms for decades.
44% : Many other pro-life voters want abortion available for pregnancies involving rape or incest or to save the life of the mother.
44% : In next year's session of the Texas Legislature, Democrats will introduce various bills to legalize abortion.
42% : Poll after poll shows it, and the voters of Kansas proved it in a dramatic way in August, when 62% of them struck down a proposal to virtually outlaw abortion in their state.
39% : But their message on abortion from that deep-red state could not be any plainer: Don't ban it, at least not completely.
38% : Well, it no longer is, and thus abortion is now virtually outlawed in Texas thanks to "trigger laws" that were set to go in effect if the Supreme Court ever did reverse Roe.
34% :That shouldn't seem too controversial, given that only about 15% of voters want abortion banned in all cases.
33% : For years - 49 of them, to be exact - most Republican candidates and office holders fervently wished that Roe vs. Wade would be repealed and abortion could be outlawed once again.
33% : And while no single issue will usually decide a race, being on the wrong side of a major one like abortion is not going to help anyone get elected.
23% : Nichols - as conservative as anyone in the Legislature - recently stepped up on this issue and said that while he still opposed abortion in general, he would support one key option.
*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.