Susan Collins Calls Texas Abortion Law ‘Extreme and Harmful’

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is adding her name to the list of lawmakers who believe the Texas 🏥Abortion law is doing more harm than good.

She said in a Thursday statement, “The Texas law is extreme and harmful. The Supreme Court recognized that there are ‘serious questions’ regarding the constitutionality of the Texas law, and it emphasized that its recent ruling does not address those question.”

Collins added, “I oppose the Court’s decision to allow the law to remain in effect for now while these underlying constitutional and procedural questions are litigated.”

The law, known as the “fetal heartbeat bill,” went into effect in Texas Wednesday. It bans all abortions after six weeks. The Supreme Court later refused to block the bill.

The decision garnered strong reactions from both President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

Biden called the decision “an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade, which has been the law of the land for almost fifty years.”