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Collins’ anti-reproductive rights record extends far beyond Kavanaugh vote 77%
By Channa Steinmetz85%
8/5/2026, 11:46:34 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Confirmation Bias, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.5% saturation with 142 hits. Analysis detected 832 faulty-reasoning hits from 319 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 61.1% and a BS Rank of 77% (6,731 of 28,461 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 76.40% of the article peer group.
One of Sen.
Susan Collins’ most infamous votes was her 2018 decision to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who played a key role in overturning Roe v.
Wade.
But Collins, who has claimed to be a “pro-choice” Republican, has made several other decisive votes against reproductive rights.
After a draft Supreme Court opinion revealed that the Court was poised to overturn Roe v.
Wade in 2022, Collins still voted against the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would have codified abortion protections into federal law .
The vote came after Collins had helped confirm Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, three of the five justices who ultimately voted to overturn Roe in Dobbs v.
Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Before voting to confirm Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, Collins said she believed they viewed Roe as settled precedent and would not vote to overturn it.
Both justices had previously established records opposing abortion rights and were supported by conservative legal groups that had made overturning Roe a central goal.
Collins’ Senate record also includes numerous votes supporting anti-abortion judicial nominees, Cabinet officials and legislation.
She voted to confirm at least 43 federal judges nominated by Pres.
Donald Trump who had records opposing abortion rights.
Among them were judges who supported fetal personhood policies and restrictions on abortion and contraception access.
Her legislative record includes votes to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood, support abortion funding restrictions through the Hyde and Dornan amendments, and advance Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” despite warnings that it would reduce access to health care services , including reproductive care.
Less than two months after the bill became law, Maine reproductive health providers said many patients would soon lose access to primary care because of the changes.
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