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PBS Objectivity? AZ Abortion Ban Cuts off 'Critical Release Valve,' No More 'Fleeing'

Apr 15, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    54% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    54% Medium Conservative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Carter Sherman: So this ban has been the source of court battles and chaos since the overturning of Roe almost two years ago.
53% : Now, what's unclear at this point is when exactly that ban will fully take effect and be enforceable, in the words of the court.
48% : An effort is already under way right now to put a measure on the 2024 ballot that would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.
46% : In this case, in particular, Planned Parenthood has argued that these laws needed to be harmonized, and that's why that the 15-week ban should be allowed to stand over the 1864 ban.
44% : It's the latest test of the limits on abortion since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections from the decades-old Roe v. Wade decision....
44% : It's the latest test of the limits on abortion since the Supreme Court ended federal abortion protections from the decades-old Roe v. Wade decision.

*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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