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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSusan Collins called the Texas abortion ban 'inhumane' and said she's working on a bipartisan bill
to make Roe v. Wade the 'law of the land'Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Saturday she is working on a bipartisan bill to codify Roe v. Wade, The Associated Press reported.
Collins was speaking at an event in Maine while women across the US took to the streets to protest in favor of abortion rights. The protests came a month after Texas enacted a restrictive law that bans all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, without any exceptions for rape or incest.
Collins called the law "extreme, inhumane and unconstitutional," according to AP. She also said she is working with two Democrats and another Republican in Congress on a bill that would make Roe v. Wade the "law of the land."
Collins did not say who she is working with but that the bill would be introduced soon.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-sen-susan-collins-called-051525890.html
Thank you for your concern Senator Collins. Of course you support of Beer Bong Brett and The Handmaiden didn't help.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)I'm sure you won't get enough republican votes to overcome the filibuster, especially if yours is the 60th vote.
jimfields33
(15,703 posts)Dont count her out on this bill. She is pro choice.
Laffy Kat
(16,373 posts)She keeps trying to have it both ways. If she were truly pro-choice, she would not have supported Kavanaugh.
hatrack
(59,578 posts).
Salviati
(6,008 posts)It's a way for them to feel important, and get their names on something, but if there were zero republican votes on that stuff, it would have been included in the reconciliation package (at least the stuff that needs doing). "Getting" republican votes for that is not an achievement, it's like getting a tantruming toddler to accept their birthday present.
And I'll judge her on her actions, not the noises coming out of her mouth. I'll believe she's pro-choice when she acts like it in a situation that's not already a forgone conclusion. You can always count on her vote when you don't need it.
jimfields33
(15,703 posts)Too many are dropping with cars on them. That desperately needs fixed.
Salviati
(6,008 posts)The Democrats would have seen that it had gotten done. It would have been wrapped up in the reconciliation bill, and been taken care of.
The fact that it got put in a separate bill, so that republicans could vote for the stuff that they liked, while refusing to vote for the rest of it, is like letting them eat their dessert without having their dinner first.
What the Democrats get out of it, is the softening of the attack that we're refusing to work with them, which isn't nothing. But don't think that the key items in the bipartisan bill required republican support to happen.
marmar
(77,056 posts)MontanaMama
(23,296 posts)Susan sounds concerned. 🙄
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)Blue Owl
(50,272 posts)wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)That's how she was able to fool the folks in Maine to re-elect her and her fake centrism.
bluewater
(5,376 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Hogwash..............
jimfields33
(15,703 posts)AleksS
(1,665 posts)And just to clarify, isn't Roe v. Wade the law of the land already?
She's the one that helped Beer Bong Kavanaugh and Women-Don't-Need-Rights Barrett get into a position to stop Roe v. Wade from being law of the land. Has she forgotten so quickly?
Autumn
(44,984 posts)kimbutgar
(21,056 posts)There is nothing she says that is not a lie!
hatrack
(59,578 posts)I think that should cover it.
Scrivener7
(50,918 posts)Retrograde
(10,130 posts)and push that through the Senate? It would save a lot of time, and if it meets with a lot of resistance from your Senate colleagues you can just be your wishy-washy self and blame the whole thing on Pelosi.
Mad_Machine76
(24,396 posts)Oh yeah. She wanted religious exemptions so that people couldn't be FORCED to perform abortions.
spanone
(135,795 posts)she's comedy gold
She voted no on Barrett but I don't trust her.
obamanut2012
(26,047 posts)Generic Brad
(14,272 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)It may be bipartisan, but no way in hell is it going to be bipartisan enough to break a filibuster.
Greybnk48
(10,162 posts)She thinks she'll get cred for pretending to be pro-woman, knowing full well it will never go anywhere.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Susan is a constant disappointment when it comes to keeping her word. This is just more of the same.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Meh, to whatever Collins says.