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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConcerned Sen. Susan Collins supports codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections into law
WASHINGTON Sen. Susan Collins, the moderate Republican from Maine, favors passing legislation to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law, her office said Wednesday.
"Senator Collins supports the right to an abortion and believes that the protections in the Roe and Casey decisions should be passed into law. She has had some conversations with her colleagues about this and is open to further discussions," Collins spokeswoman Annie Clark told NBC News in an email.
The remarks came hours after the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a major case that experts believe could lead to the undoing of the landmark 1973 ruling and its subsequent precedents that protect a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.
But Collins opposes the House-passed Women's Health Protection Act, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has promised will get a vote in the Senate.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-sen-susan-collins-supports-codifying-roe-v-wade-abortion-protections-into-law/ar-AARmAIN
Of course this all could have been avoided had you not okayed the appointment of Drunky McPukeface.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)I am not holding my breath on that!
FalloutShelter
(11,877 posts)in historic numbers and cut the Rethugs off at the knees in the mid-terms.
Polybius
(15,469 posts)Joe Manchin opposes abortion.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Polybius
(15,469 posts)Murkowski would likely support a national abortion law as well.
Colgate 64
(14,732 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,502 posts)unnecessary and just flat out false qualifier.
sanatanadharma
(3,722 posts)I say do it. Make a federal law granting abortion rights that override zip-code based denial of rights.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The horse is long gone from the stable, and Sen. Collins wants to tie a piece of string across the paddock. That'll fix everything! She supported the nomination of every one of these ignorant misogynists, and now she's shocked and concerned and brow a-furrow'd that they're doing exactly what we told her they were going to do.
Sit down, Senator. You had your chance, several of them, and you fucked it up nine ways from Sunday. Retire. Better yet, resign. Just disappear from public life and spend the rest of your days wearing sackcloth and eating ashes.
Deuxcents
(16,314 posts)Besides. Her credibility is bankrupt
dsc
(52,166 posts)Celerity
(43,485 posts)In It to Win It
(8,279 posts)They would have to codify the right into law and strip the courts jurisdiction over the issue.
Zero chance of that happening
Raven123
(4,862 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,285 posts)Colgate 64
(14,732 posts)"No one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of the voters".
msfiddlestix
(7,285 posts)That's a keeper!
Buckeyeblue
(5,500 posts)I think many people would be fine with making Casey the law of the land.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,846 posts)I mean, something besides insincerity?
Zambero
(8,965 posts)Collins knows full well that her partisans would filibuster any such legislation. In a closely divided Senate, she bears full responsibility for the far-right Supreme Court now in place.
Xolodno
(6,398 posts)...she can finally drop her "concerned" charade.
hatrack
(59,592 posts).
Paladin
(28,271 posts)Just as soon as possible.
The Wizard
(12,547 posts)The reality is she's a radical nut like the rest of the toxic death cult.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)You're either a liar, or simply too damned gullible to be a United States Senator.
Colgate 64
(14,732 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)She is a liar. End of story.
lindysalsagal
(20,726 posts)After her stern call from turtleneck, all bets are off.
SunImp
(2,225 posts)If you think otherwise you're a blind idiot