Human Rights Watch Article Rating

Legal Yet Limited: Abortion Rights in Nepal

Jun 14, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    10% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    90% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -55% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : In 2018, Nepal's government went further to protect women, enacting legislation that recognizes seeking abortion as a fundamental human right.
43% : Government data from 1998 indicates that over half of the gynecologic and obstetric hospital admissions at the time were due to abortion.
40% :Nepal's abortion law permits women to seek abortion for any reason up to 12 weeks of gestation, and up to 28 weeks in cases of rape or incest.
40% : In a landmark 2009 decision, Nepal's Supreme Court recognized that legalizing abortion alone was not enough to protect women's reproductive rights.
39% : However, the act failed to fully decriminalize abortion.
38% : Nepal should deliver its commitment to amend the criminal code by removing the provision that still criminalizes abortion, bringing it in line with legislation which clearly recognizes the right.
35% : Abortion is also legal up to 28 weeks of the pregnancy if a licensed medical practitioner identifies a risk to the woman's mental or physical health or if the fetus is "likely to become non-viable."

*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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