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Senate to vote on abortion rights; Democrats hope to send message

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats plan to vote Wednesday on a bill to establish a federal right to abortion in hopes of drawing a sharp political contrast with Republicans who support the Supreme Court's expected ruling to undo the Roe vs. Wade decision.

Los Angeles Times

Republican senator compares women to sea turtles and eagles in speech against abortion rights

Steve Daines made the remarks on the floor of the US Senate

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Warren lays into Susan Collins’s abortion compromise legislation

The Republican is working on compromise legislation with Senator Tim Kaine

The Independent UK

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Political reality: Congress can't save -- or end -- abortion

Fighting for decades over abortion policy, Congress is about to run into the political limits of its ability to act in either direction on the issue

The Independent UK

Susan Collins calls the cops over polite abortion message chalked outside home

‘Intricately drawn’ message urging Republican senator to back reproductive rights bill was not a crime, police in Maine say

The Guardian - US

Collins calls the cops over chalk sign

“Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess,” the message in chalk on the sidewalk read

Salon

Abortion rights message scrawled in chalk outside Sen Susan Collins’ Maine home prompts police response

The message outside of the Maine Senator’s home ‘was not overly threatening’, according to authorities

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Pro-choice groups urge moderate Republicans to scrap bill legalizing abortion saying it wouldn’t be effective

A coalition of pro-choice groups Monday urged moderate Republicans to abandon their alternative to a Democratic push to legalize abortion after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that will likely soon overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.

Tribune News Service

Schumer says vote to save Roe is not an ‘abstract exercise’ and ‘is as real and as high stakes as it gets’

Democrats are pushing for their legislation to codify the protections in Roe v Wade despite little likelihood it can pass

The Independent UK

Collins' challenge: Impeach Kavanaugh

"If only there had been some warning signs about Kavanaugh's dishonesty"

Salon

Pelosi says Supreme Court ‘slapped women in the face’ with Roe draft while GOP lawmakers skirt the issue

‘Here we are on Mother’s Day, a week where the Court has slapped women in the face in terms of disrespect for their judgments about the size and timing of their families,’ says Pelosi

The Independent UK

Martin Schram: A supreme conning of America’s women

Let’s tell the blatant truth right up-front: Senate Republicans are understandably upset by the leaking of the Supreme Court’s always-secret draft opinion. Especially this supremely controversial one.

Tribune News Service

Top Democrat on abortion legislation blasts Collins-Murkowski bill as insufficient

Senator Richard Blumenthal says from the Maine Republican are inaccurate

The Independent UK

What is in Murkowski and Collins’ alternative abortion bill versus Democrats’ legislation?

Comes as Democratic senators try another run at the Women’s Health Protection Act

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The Guardian - US

Trump justices accused of going back on their word on Roe – but did they?

Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett face accusations of having misled politicians and the public about their willingness to overturn Roe

The Independent UK

Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski propose alternative abortion legislation after leaked Roe draft opinion

Comes as Democratic senators try another run at the Women’s Health Protection Act

Chicago Sun-Times

You don’t have to be pro-choice to oppose overturning Roe

I am pro-life. I hate abortion, and wish desperately that women confronting that difficult and awful choice felt they had alternatives to ending the life of an unborn child. But I also believe deeply in democracy.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: Forget the leak. The justices’ radicalism has shredded the Supreme Court’s integrity

Talk about shooting the messenger.

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Salon

Why can't Collins admit she was wrong?

"She let us down”

Los Angeles Times

Democrats promise to fight for abortion rights but have few options

WASHINGTON — Democrats on Capitol Hill were spitting fire Tuesday in the wake of the leak of a Supreme Court draft ruling overturning abortion rights, but acknowledged their hands are tied unless voters deliver them a strong majority in Congress this fall.

Salon

Hawley: Susan Collins is feigning shock

Collins has repeatedly vouched for Kavanaugh, claiming he would not touch abortion

WEKU

The political consequences of the Supreme Court's leaked draft opinion on abortion

The draft — showing the conservative majority ready to overturn Roe v. Wade — will have wide-ranging ramifications, from pressure to end the filibuster to more distrust of the confirmation process.

Axios

Murkowski: Draft Roe v. Wade decision “rocks my confidence” in Supreme Court

“Roe is still the law of the land. We don't know the direction that this decision may ultimately take."

The Independent UK

Schumer vows abortion law vote, but not filibuster changes

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer angrily denounced as an “abomination” the Supreme Court’s leaked draft decision that would overturn the nation’s landmark Roe v

Axios

Collins says Kavanaugh and Gorsuch possibly broke promise on Roe v. Wade

Collins said that the associate justices had assured her they would not overturn Roe.

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