- Collins reportedly called cops about a report of abortion rights on the sidewalk in front of her house.
- “Susie, please, the Miners want WHPA — vote for, clear up your mess,” the statement said.
- The bill, which will codify Rowe v. Wade in law, will be voted on Wednesday. Collins will vote against.
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Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, one of only two nominees to stay in the Senate, called cops on Saturday night for a message about abortion rights written in chalk in front of her Bangor home.
According to the Bangor Daily News, officials responded to a call at 9:20 p.m. on Saturday after the message “Susie, please, Miners want WHPA —–> vote for, clear up your mess” appeared on a public sidewalk on West Broadway.
WHPA is a reference to the Women’s Health Act, a bill that would codify Roe v. Wade’s right to abortion in federal law. Senate Democrats began voting Wednesday on the bill – which was passed by the House in September – following a Supreme Court ruling overturning Rowe.
“The message was not found threatening,” said Wade Butters, a spokesman for the Bangor Police Department, who also said the message was no longer visible until Monday afternoon.
“We are grateful to the police officers in Bangor and the public works officer who responded to the corruption of public property in front of our home,” the senator told Bangor Daily News.
Collins, who describes abortion rights, opposes the Women’s Health Act, arguing that the bill goes too far because medical providers who oppose abortion for moral or religious reasons have no right to refuse performing the procedure. She said she would vote “no” to legislation expected to fail in the Senate without the support of Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, who also said he was against.
Collins voted to confirm Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito, Brett Cavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, three of the five conservative judges who reportedly voted in favor of the draft opinion, which overturned decades of precedent on abortion rights.
“I could not vote for a judge who shows hostility to Rowe against Wade because it would mean disrespect for the precedent,” she told CBS in 2018, adding that Judge Cavanaugh told her that he “does not consider the precedent.” simply as a legal doctrine, but rooted in our constitution. “
Collins criticized the reported support of Gorsuch and Cavanaugh for revoking the constitutional right to abortion following the publication of the draft opinion by Politico last week.
“If this expired draft opinion is the final decision and this reporting is accurate, it would be completely incompatible with what Judge Gorsuch and Judge Cavanaugh said during the hearings and our meetings in my office,” Collins said in a statement.
Collins and Republican Sen. Lisa Markowski, who also opposes Rowe’s repeal, proposed a more moderate bill called the Reproductive Choice Act, but electoral groups and Democrats challenged the bill.
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