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Doctors challenging mifepristone face scrutiny over their limited experience, standing to sue

Mar 25, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    6% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -4% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Skeptics of the anti-abortion doctors warn that their theories would toss open the doors to a flood of new lawsuits - from both liberal and conservative groups - over countless other decisions made by the federal government.
54% : Questions about the anti-abortion doctors and advocates at the heart of the mifepristone case will almost certainly feature prominently in the arguments.
46% : Dr. Ingrid Skop, a Texas OB-GYN who is also vice president at the anti-abortion advocacy group Charlotte Lozier Institute, regularly testifies on abortion and has been involved in multiple lawsuits involving the procedure.
45% : "I have cared for at least a dozen women who have required surgery to remove retained pregnancy tissue after a chemical abortion," Skop told the district court in the current case in a declaration submitted on behalf of one of the anti-abortion groups.
43% : Others say they or their colleagues have been forced to perform post-medication procedures that violate their beliefs.RELATED: US abortion reach highest level in over a decadeDr. Christina Francis, an Indiana OB-GYN and CEO of one of the anti-abortion groups involved in the case, hasn't personally been forced to perform an "emergency abortion" because of mifepristone but told the court about a patient who arrived at an emergency room in such an unstable condition in 2022 that a colleague had to perform an emergency abortion despite feeling as though she was "forced to participate in something that she did not want to be a part of.

*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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