Susan Collins called the Texas abortion ban 'inhumane' and said she's working on a bipartisan bill

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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]

1. Good luck with that susan.

I'm sure you won't get enough republican votes to overcome the filibuster, especially if yours is the 60th vote.

[jimfields33]

11. She did get the VETO proof infrastructure bill that President Biden needed big time.

Don’t count her out on this bill. She is pro choice.

[Laffy Kat]

14. She says she's pro-choice as her actions prove otherwise.

She keeps trying to have it both ways. If she were truly pro-choice, she would not have supported Kavanaugh.

[hatrack]

17. Or Justice Handmaid

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[Salviati]

19. The bipartisan infrastructure bill is a gift to the republicans and corporate dems

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]

20. Maybe but I want those bridges specifically fixed

Too many are dropping with cars on them. That desperately needs fixed.

[Salviati]

22. And if no republicans had voted to do that

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]

2. I'm sure she's authoring a strongly-worded letter.

[Auggie]

5. +1

[MontanaMama]

3. Oh dear.

Susan sounds concerned. 🙄

[liberaltrucker]

26. Troubled, even

[Blue Owl]

4. She can't unclutch those pearls

[wellst0nev0ter]

6. Collins actually got a hall pass to vote against Barrett

That's how she was able to fool the folks in Maine to re-elect her and her fake centrism.

[bluewater]

8. Exactly!

[secondwind]

7. This was passed two weeks ago........ she's STILL working on a bipartisan bill??!?

Hogwash..............

[jimfields33]

12. In the house. Collins is a senator

[AleksS]

9. Lovely. She's concerned that the thing that everyone warned her about happening, actually happened.

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]

10. Fuck her bipartisan bill, and anyone who signs on to it or votes for it.

[kimbutgar]

13. She is s lying piece of scum

There is nothing she says that is not a lie!

[hatrack]

15. Blah blahblah BLAHBLAH blah blahblahblah BLAH blahblahblahblah BLAHBLAHBLAH

I think that should cover it.

[Scrivener7]

16. Asshole.

[Retrograde]

18. So why not just take the bill the House passed

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]

25. Didn't she have some (stupid) "concerns" about the House bill?

Oh yeah. She wanted religious exemptions so that people couldn't be FORCED to perform abortions.

[spanone]

21. ...and if you believe that!

she's comedy gold

She voted no on Barrett but I don't trust her.

[obamanut2012]

23. Yes, Aunt Lydia

[Generic Brad]

24. Is it called "The Concerned (But not Really Concerned) Bill?

[regnaD kciN]

27. Good luck getting nine other Repugs to support it, Susie...

It may be “bipartisan,” but no way in hell is it going to be bipartisan enough to break a filibuster.

[Greybnk48]

28. More of Collin's cutesy bullshit. She's so tiresome.

She thinks she'll get cred for pretending to be pro-woman, knowing full well it will never go anywhere.

[BlueIdaho]

29. Excuse me if I don't hold my breath...

Susan is a constant disappointment when it comes to keeping her word. This is just more of the same.

[MoonRiver]

30. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Meh, to whatever Collins says.