US state's top court overturns six-week abortion ban

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  • Reliability

    55% ReliableFair

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"This is a monumental victory in the movement to protect legal abortion in the South, said Plaed Parenthood, a nonprofit that operates many health clinics that offer abortions."
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14% Conservative
"IN THESE FIVE SOUTH AFRICAN PROVINCESSince then, the country has been riven between states that have enacted restrictions or bans, mainly in the South and the Midwest, and those that have buttressed access to abortion, largely on the coasts."
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-10% Liberal
"The decision opens up new opportunities for women in nearby states such as Alabama and Teessee who have no access to abortion and can now travel to South Carolina for the procedure."
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-14% Liberal
"In the first reversal of its kind, South Carolina's Supreme Court overturned a law baing abortion after six weeks on Thursday - inflicting a major setback for abortion opponents in the conservative, southern state."
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-32% Liberal
"The report's eight chapters of findings tell the story largely as the panel's hearings did this summer -- describing the many facets of the remarkable plan that Trump and his advisers devised to try and void President Joe Biden's victory."
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4% Conservative
"The report's eight chapters of findings tell the story largely as the panel's hearings did this summer -- describing the many facets of the remarkable plan that Trump and his advisers devised to try and void President Joe Biden's victory."
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4% Conservative
"The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed, reads the report."
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-8% Liberal
"The 814-page report comes after the panel interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, held 10 hearings and obtained millions of pages of documents, concluding an extraordinary 18-month investigation into former President Donald Trump and the violent insurrection two years ago."
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-20% Liberal
"Trump's repeated, false claims of widespread voter fraud resonated with his supporters, the committee said, and were amplified on social media, building on the distrust of government he had fostered for his four years in office."
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-20% Liberal
"The witnesses -- ranging from many of Trump's closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves -- detailed Trump's actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection and how his wide-ranging pressure campaign to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election directly influenced those who brutally pushed past police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."
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-14% Liberal
"The witnesses -- ranging from many of Trump's closest aides to law enforcement to some of the rioters themselves -- detailed Trump's actions in the weeks ahead of the insurrection and how his wide-ranging pressure campaign to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election directly influenced those who brutally pushed past police and smashed through the windows and doors of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."
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-14% Liberal
"It is also a final act for House Democrats who are ceding power to Republicans in less than two weeks and have spent much of their four years in power investigating Trump."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The lawmakers describe his pressure on states, federal officials, lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to game the system or break the law."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"The massive, damning report comes as Trump is ruing again for the presidency and also facing multiple federal investigations, including probes of his role in the insurrection and the presence of classified documents at his Florida estate."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"Democrats impeached Trump twice, the second time a week after the insurrection."
Negative
-28% Liberal
"And Trump has been blamed by Republicans for a worse-than-expected showing in the midterm elections, leaving him in his most politically vulnerable state since he won the 2016 election."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "This is a monumental victory in the movement to protect legal abortion in the South," said Planned Parenthood, a nonprofit that operates many health clinics that offer abortions.
45% : IN THESE FIVE SOUTH AFRICAN PROVINCESSince then, the country has been riven between states that have enacted restrictions or bans, mainly in the South and the Midwest, and those that have buttressed access to abortion, largely on the coasts.
43% : The decision opens up new opportunities for women in nearby states such as Alabama and Tennessee who have no access to abortion and can now travel to South Carolina for the procedure.
34% : In the first reversal of its kind, South Carolina's Supreme Court overturned a law banning abortion after six weeks on Thursday - inflicting a major setback for abortion opponents in the conservative, southern state.

*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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