SCOTUS Judges Skeptical of Challenge to Mail-Order Abortions

Mar 26, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    Center

  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    86% Negative

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

Overall Sentiment

-29% Negative

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"A key point of contention in Tuesday's arguments was whether the alliance -- a collective of anti-abortion doctors and medical groups whose members do not take, prescribe, or dispense mifepristone -- had standing to bring the case at all."
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22% Conservative
"Of particular interest was the Comstock Act, which prohibits the mailing of obscene materials -- such as drugs used to induce abortions -- through the U.S. Postal Service."
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-14% Liberal
"In oral arguments, an attorney for the anti-abortion Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine faced off with lawyers for the government and a drug manufacturer over the Food and Drug Administration's loosening of restrictions around mifepristone, one of two drugs used in a medication abortion."
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-20% Liberal
"Gorsuch bemoaned the rash of federal injunctions issued in recent years, telling Hawley she was asking us to extend and pursue this relatively remedial course, which this court has never adopted."
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-48% Liberal
"The justices repeatedly questioned alliance lawyer Erin Hawley -- the wife of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley -- on whether the doctors named in the case had ever been required to treat complications from mifepristone against their will."
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-20% Liberal
"Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett also had questions for Hawley about standing, including -- from Thomas -- whether the monetary harm the alliance suffered was sufficient to warrant standing in the case."
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-22% Liberal
"Both Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson and notoriously anti-abortion Justice Amy Coney Barrett pressed Hawley to find a single example in the testimony of a doctor being forced to do so -- something the attorney struggled to do."
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-28% Liberal
"Gorsuch bemoaned the rash of federal injunctions issued in recent years, telling Hawley she was asking us to extend and pursue this relatively remedial course, which this court has never adopted."
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-18% Liberal
"Gorsuch bemoaned the rash of federal injunctions issued in recent years, telling Hawley she was asking us to extend and pursue this relatively remedial course, which this court has never adopted."
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-18% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : A key point of contention in Tuesday's arguments was whether the alliance -- a collective of anti-abortion doctors and medical groups whose members do not take, prescribe, or dispense mifepristone -- had standing to bring the case at all.
43% : Of particular interest was the Comstock Act, which prohibits the mailing of "obscene" materials -- such as drugs used to induce abortions -- through the U.S. Postal Service.
40% : In oral arguments, an attorney for the anti-abortion Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine faced off with lawyers for the government and a drug manufacturer over the Food and Drug Administration's loosening of restrictions around mifepristone, one of two drugs used in a medication abortion.
26% : Gorsuch bemoaned the "rash" of federal injunctions issued in recent years, telling Hawley she was "asking us to extend and pursue this relatively remedial course, which this court has never adopted.

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