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Wailing at the WashPost: Post Laments Impending Red State Abortion Bans

Jun 25, 2022 View Original Article
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    64% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    64% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -28% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% :Kitchener makes sure to highlight the steps Planned Parenthood is taking to make sure women could still seek abortion and their coffers are still filled:Planned Parenthood and other abortion clinics are doing what they can to accommodate as many patients as possible.
43% :Of course, no article would be complete without a reference to how this decision means everyone must vote Blue in November, "Midterm election results could affect whether abortion remains legal in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, states with Republican-led legislatures and Democratic governors who support abortion rights."
39% : One of the first salvos of this predictable keening came from The Washington Post's Caroline Kitchener, whose article "Roe's demise marks new phase in state-by-state battle over abortion" is little more than a massive freakout about the impending abortion bans in thirteen different states.
32% : After lamenting the diminishing resources for women to seek out-of-state abortions, she highlights a foreign organization dedicated to providing illegal abortions, "Aid Access, an Austrian-based organization run by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, mails abortion pills to all 50 states, including over a dozen states that have banned abortion by mail.

*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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