Maine GOP senator Susan Collins supports an expansive right to abortion, but she opposes the congressional Democrats’ abortion bill, the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), because it goes beyond Roe v. Wade (which itself is a radical abortion policy imposed by the Supreme Court that places U.S. law far outside the norm worldwide).
The WHPA is a sweeping bill that effectively creates a federal right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy (through an expansive post-viability “health” exception that would include mental and emotional health). It would also strike down almost all state laws on abortion. One of Collins’s objections is that the WHPA would create a federal right to sex-selective abortions — that is, abortions that (typically) target unborn baby girls simply because they are girls. “WHPA’s overly broad language far exceeds Roe by striking down state laws such as those that require certain materials to be given to the patient, prohibit sex-based abortions, or require parental or guardian notification for minors seeking an abortion,” according to a press release sent out by Collins and Alaska GOP senator Lisa Murkowski.
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