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Claim Scottish law bans praying silently in home is False

Nov 18, 2024 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -50% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    -50% Medium Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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-23% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : This law was controversial among anti-abortion activists and condemned by Christian groups for allegedly making it illegal to pray within the areas designated as buffer zones.
56% : This legislation was brought in as a response to campaigning by anti-abortion activists, who have regularly held protests outside high profile abortion services such as the Queen Elizabeth university hospital (QEUH) in Glasgow.
52% : The Scottish law was picked up by political commentators and influencers in the US, including by Isabel Brown, a TikTok creator who posts content that has a pro-Christian, pro-Donald Trump and anti-abortion stance.

*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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