Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) might be a pro-choice Republican, but that does not mean she supports the Democratic Party’s latest attempt to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law.
On Wednesday, Majority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that the Senate would vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA). That act “would establish a right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy in all 50 states,” National Review reported.
On Thursday, Collins told media reporters that she has serious concerns about the bill.
“It supersedes all other federal and state laws, including the conscience protections that are in the Affordable Care Act,” Collins lamented.
“It doesn’t protect the right of a Catholic hospital to not perform abortions. That right has been enshrined in law for a long
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