The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Article Rating- Bias Rating
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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.
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| "Dormant for a half-century, the Comstock Act has been revived by anti-abortion groups and conservative states seeking to block the mailing of mifepristone." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "But Rachel Rebouche of Temple University's law school says anti-abortion groups -- emboldened by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe -- have seized on Comstock to try and shut off the flow of abortion drugs." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Currently, for patients in states with abortion bans or restrictions, Aid Access has the pills shipped from a pharmacy in India, while patients in states where abortion is legal receive their pills from providers within the United States." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The World Health Organization has endorsed a misoprostol-only regimen for abortion and it is used in many countries, especially where there is limited availability of mifepristone." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The law was essentially dormant in the 50 years after Roe v. Wade established a federal right to abortion." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But there are a lot of uncertainties -- especially because a federal judge in Washington state issued a contradictory ruling less than an hour later saying the FDA should do nothing to restrict the pill's availability in most states that allow abortion, so the situation is complicated." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Until the FDA loosened its requirements on mifepristone in 2021, there was no real way to enable abortion through the mail." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "In the Texas lawsuit, the anti-abortion organizations also seek to ban the use of misoprostol for abortion, but their request for a preliminary injunction focused on mifepristone." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "In his ruling, Kacsmaryk, who previously worked for a conservative Christian legal organization, repeatedly used the language of opponents of abortion, calling medication abortion chemical abortion, calling abortion providers abortionists and referring to a fetus as an unborn human or unborn child." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The lawsuit in the Texas district court, filed by a consortium of groups and doctors opposed to abortion, argues that the FDA did not adequately review the scientific evidence or follow proper protocols when it approved mifepristone in 2000 and that it has since ignored safety risks of the medication." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The ruling by Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, a Trump appointee who has written critically about Roe v. Wade, declares the FDA's approval of mifepristone in 2000 to be invalid." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "The ruling by Judge Thomas Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, an Obama appointee, orders the FDA to maintain the status quo and blocks it from restricting the availability of mifepristone in the states that filed the lawsuit before that court." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The ruling by Judge Thomas Rice of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, an Obama appointee, orders the FDA to maintain the status quo and blocks it from restricting the availability of mifepristone in the states that filed the lawsuit before that court." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : Dormant for a half-century, the Comstock Act has been revived by anti-abortion groups and conservative states seeking to block the mailing of mifepristone.59% : But Rachel Rebouche of Temple University's law school says anti-abortion groups -- emboldened by the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe -- have seized on Comstock to try and shut off the flow of abortion drugs.
50% : Currently, for patients in states with abortion bans or restrictions, Aid Access has the pills shipped from a pharmacy in India, while patients in states where abortion is legal receive their pills from providers within the United States.
46% : The World Health Organization has endorsed a misoprostol-only regimen for abortion and it is used in many countries, especially where there is limited availability of mifepristone.
42% : The law was essentially dormant in the 50 years after Roe v. Wade established a federal right to abortion.
40% : But there are a lot of uncertainties -- especially because a federal judge in Washington state issued a contradictory ruling less than an hour later saying the FDA should do nothing to restrict the pill's availability in most states that allow abortion, so the situation is complicated.
40% : Until the FDA loosened its requirements on mifepristone in 2021, there was no real way to enable abortion through the mail.
39% : In the Texas lawsuit, the anti-abortion organizations also seek to ban the use of misoprostol for abortion, but their request for a preliminary injunction focused on mifepristone.
38% : In his ruling, Kacsmaryk, who previously worked for a conservative Christian legal organization, repeatedly used the language of opponents of abortion, calling medication abortion "chemical abortion," calling abortion providers "abortionists" and referring to a fetus as an "unborn human" or "unborn child."
37% : The lawsuit in the Texas district court, filed by a consortium of groups and doctors opposed to abortion, argues that the FDA did not adequately review the scientific evidence or follow proper protocols when it approved mifepristone in 2000 and that it has since ignored safety risks of the medication.
*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.