Trump Says Abortion Should Be Left to States, Disappointing Pro-Life Advocates - The Tablet

  • Bias Rating

    Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    90% 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

-11% Negative

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"In a video posted to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump took credit for the Supreme Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned its previous abortion precedent since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins struck a different tone, saying in a statement, Unlike President Biden, President Trump begins his remarks on abortion celebrating 'the ultimate joy in life' -- children and family.That kind of love and support for the bedrock of society, the family, will be a welcome change in the White House, Hawkins said."
Positive
6% Conservative
"But Trump said that my view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint; the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land."
Positive
2% Conservative
"OSV News reached out to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-life Activities, but did not receive an immediate response."
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-4% Liberal
"Throughout his third bid for the White House, Trump has been reluctant to take a firm position on abortion."
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-24% Liberal
"Elsewhere in the video, Trump said that he supports access to in vitro fertilization in every state after a ruling by Alabama's Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law's wrongful death law."
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-24% Liberal
"In a video posted to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump took credit for the Supreme Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned its previous abortion precedent since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins struck a different tone, saying in a statement, Unlike President Biden, President Trump begins his remarks on abortion celebrating 'the ultimate joy in life' -- children and family.That kind of love and support for the bedrock of society, the family, will be a welcome change in the White House, Hawkins said."
Positive
2% Conservative
"Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins struck a different tone, saying in a statement, Unlike President Biden, President Trump begins his remarks on abortion celebrating 'the ultimate joy in life' -- children and family.That kind of love and support for the bedrock of society, the family, will be a welcome change in the White House, Hawkins said."
Positive
2% Conservative
"But Trump said that my view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint; the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Trump's statement, in effect, dodges calls from pro-life groups who sought a pledge from the candidate to support federal restrictions, and repudiates reports that he would embrace a national abortion ban at 15 or 16 weeks in pregnancy."
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-18% Liberal
"Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, issued a video statement April 8 arguing abortion should be left to individual states to legislate and declining to back federal restrictions sought by pro-life activists."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Elsewhere in the video, Trump said that he supports access to in vitro fertilization in every state after a ruling by Alabama's Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law's wrongful death law."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"But Daenfelser said, With lives on the line, SBA Pro-Life America and the pro-life grassroots will work tirelessly to defeat President Biden and extreme congressional Democrats."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Analysts, by contrast, blamed in part quality issues with Republican campaigns in that cycle and Trump's repeated, unproven claims of a stolen 2020 election for the party's underperformance."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"Daenfelser said in a statement April 8, We are deeply disappointed in President Trump's position."
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-38% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In a video posted to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump took credit for the Supreme Court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned its previous abortion precedent since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
53% : "Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins struck a different tone, saying in a statement, "Unlike President Biden, President Trump begins his remarks on abortion celebrating 'the ultimate joy in life' -- children and family.""That kind of love and support for the bedrock of society, the family, will be a welcome change in the White House," Hawkins said.
51% : But Trump said that "my view is now that we have abortion where everybody wanted it from a legal standpoint; the states will determine by vote or legislation or perhaps both, and whatever they decide must be the law of the land.
48% : "OSV News reached out to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-life Activities, but did not receive an immediate response.
38% : "Throughout his third bid for the White House, Trump has been reluctant to take a firm position on abortion.
38% : Elsewhere in the video, Trump said that he supports access to in vitro fertilization in every state after a ruling by Alabama's Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law's wrongful death law.

*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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