Susan Collins taking heat for Planned Parenthood vote

[jpak]

Source: Portland Press Herald

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is coming under unusual fire from women’s health groups for supporting a Republican-backed effort to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood in a Senate vote Monday.

But Collins’ office said the Maine senator voted for the defunding bill only on procedural grounds, because it would enable the introduction of an alternative measure that would maintain funding for most services while ordering an investigation by the Justice Department.

“Unfortunately, Senator Susan Collins surprised Maine women by backing away from previous statements and voting in support of defunding the country’s largest, most trusted women’s health care provider,” Planned Parenthood of Northern New England said in a statement Tuesday.

The Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center in Bangor, a nonprofit group that provides a range of reproductive health services, also expressed disappointment in Collins’ action.

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Read more: http://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/04/collins-taking-heat-for-planned-parenthood-vote/

[COLGATE4]

1. Once a Rethug, always a Rethug. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I never understand

how these moderate Maine Senators toed the party line

What is going on in Maine?

LePage will back her up.

You get the feeling if a Dem ousts just one of these fakers the whole
thing would go BLUE

[Ken Burch]

3. Any chance this vote could finally put Collins' seat into play? n/t.

[George II]

5. Possibly, as long as they don't run three or four candidates like they did for Governor.

[George II]

4. "Procedural" my ass....she voted against it and that's going to cost her up in Maine.

[CharlotteVale]

6. Never surprises me when a Republican acts like one.

[silvershadow]

7. Good. nt

[malokvale77]

8. Good.....

Now if we could bring the same heat to Joe Manchin in WV. Those women need the services of PP more than just about any other state.

[n2doc]

9. What a moderate….NOT! n/t

[davidpdx]

10. She can't play a moderate anymore

You outed yourself Senator Collins.

[hamsterjill]

11. Yep, a leopard always eventually shows its spots.

Pressure to conform - and she caved.

Does anyone else think this woman sounds like a child when she speaks? Almost in a "Michelle Duggar" kind of way?

[BigDemVoter]

12. This debunks the myth that Ms. Collins is a "moderate."

She votes with the assholes, and she has a big, ugly "R" after her name. She is despicable and deserves no accolades simply because she occasionally (VERY occasionally) votes with the Democrats.

[geek tragedy]

13. No such thing as a moderate Republican nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

14. She's a fraud

Repubs over everything.