Susan Collins voices opposition to Democratic legislation to create a statutory right to abortion

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/05/sen-collins-voices-opposition-legislation-that-would-create-statutory-right-abortion/



Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), one of two prominent Republican senators who support abortion rights, said Thursday that she does not support a Democratic measure that would create statutory right to the procedure, arguing that the legislation does not provide sufficient protection to antiabortion health providers.

The statement from Collins comes as the Senate is preparing to vote next week on the legislation, known as the Women’s Health Protection Act, and as the Supreme Court appears poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, which established a woman’s right to an abortion.

“It supersedes all other federal and state laws, including the conscience protections that are in the Affordable Care Act,” Collins told reporters at the Capitol on Thursday when asked whether she supports the bill authored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). She added: “It doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospital to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long time.”

The measure appears headed for failure with or without Collins’s support, since 60 senators would need to vote “yes” to overcome a filibuster. Democrats hold a slim majority with 50 seats in the chamber and Vice President Harris casting the tiebreaking vote. Public polling shows a majority of Americans support the right to abortion in most instances.

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BOB MARLEY & THE WAILING WAILERS - Hypocrites [1967]

[Corgigal]

1. She's a liar,

always been.

Please, rules are only for our side. No benefit of the doubt to be given.

Just call her a liar. She will know we can at least see her. Also, a woman hater.

[Hekate]

2. Screw yourself, Susie. The radicals on the Court lied to you, and you are lying to us.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. What a waste of carbon.

[Emile]

4. She is a snake.

[Celerity]

5. 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

[diehardblue]

6. It did not take long for her true self to show😡

[dixiechiken1]

7. "The right of Catholic hospitals to not perform abortions...

Has been enshrined in law for a long time."


SERIOUSLY?!?!?!? Irony is fucking dead.