South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Revised Abortion Heartbeat Bill After Blocking 2021 Heartbeat Law

Aug 24, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    22% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    32% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    6% 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.

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"Ultimately, the General Assembly did not attempt to simply re-enact the same legislation, as Plaed Parenthood argues."
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-6% Liberal
"The decision comes after the state Supreme Court ruled (pdf) 3-2 this year to block a version of the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act that passed in 2021, siding with Plaed Parenthood and other abortion providers who challenged the prior law."
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-10% Liberal
"Demonstrators wait for lawmakers to arrive before the South Carolina Senate passed a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia on May 23, 2023."
Negative
-18% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% :"Ultimately, the General Assembly did not attempt to simply re-enact the same legislation, as Planned Parenthood argues.
45% : The decision comes after the state Supreme Court ruled (pdf) 3-2 this year to block a version of the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act that passed in 2021, siding with Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers who challenged the prior law.
41% : Demonstrators wait for lawmakers to arrive before the South Carolina Senate passed a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia on May 23, 2023.

*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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