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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Susan Collins won't support abortion-rights bill
WASHINGTON As Democrats consider legislation to respond to a new Texas state ban on abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, they have lost the support of one of the few remaining Republicans who support abortion rights.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Tuesday she opposes the Democrats bill, which would prohibit states from enacting restrictions on abortion through fetal viability.
The House is expected to approve the bill Friday. In the Senate, Democratic leaders are considering whether to bring it to a vote.
Democrats, led by bill author Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, say their legislation would codify the Supreme Courts Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
But in a brief interview, Collins said the bill goes further than that by interfering with existing law that ensures health professionals who object to abortion are not required to participate in it.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-22/sen-susan-collins-says-she-would-oppose-abortion-rights-bill
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,777 posts)Comfortably_Numb
(3,777 posts)Raphael Cruz down here in Texjezustan, so Ill shut my trap. She needs a t-shirt that says Im with BeerBoi and the Handmaid because she is a gullible idiot.
Chipper Chat
(9,635 posts)...she might lose a dozen or so of her tRumpista voters.
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Soooo concerned.
Bev54
(9,963 posts)ColinC
(8,232 posts)I'll take "she doesn't actually support abortion rights" for $1000
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)she not even fucking concerned
Paper Roses
(7,468 posts)We could all expect this stance from her.
Advice Ms.Collins: Retire
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)The probability that anything spewing from a RePuQ's piehole is an outright lie is at least 90%, so ... I'd bet she's lying, or at least distorting reality.
It's all they have, and it's all they do.
Specifically, I'm referring to this part i.e. her excuse:
"interfering with existing law that ensures health professionals who object to abortion"
Mad_Machine76
(24,355 posts)absent maybe an emergency?! Or is she saying even that is problematic?
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)FakeNoose
(32,356 posts)Let her own up to her negativity.
Two-thirds of Americans feel differently about it.
Autumn
(44,762 posts)That's her whole game. Says she does when she doesn't about anything.
Celerity
(42,666 posts)Autumn
(44,762 posts)msongs
(67,199 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,491 posts)And it could be part of the law. A viable fetus cannot be aborted unless XYZ circumstances exist.
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)...very concerning
stillcool
(32,626 posts)guess she's done with that, as is her party.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)joetheman
(1,450 posts)What does she mean?