Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) contacted local police in Bangor, Maine, over the weekend after abortion rights protesters apparently left a chalk message outside her home in support of the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA), the Bangor Daily News reports, as the moderate senator prepares to vote against legislation that would codify abortion rights into law.
Protesters wrote, “Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess” in chalk on the sidewalk outside Collins’ Bangor home, the Daily News reports based on a police report about the incident.
Collins called the local police to investigate the incident, who the Daily News reports arrived at her home at 9:20 p.m. on Saturday.
The chalk message was “not overtly threatening,” police spokesperson Wade Betters told the publication, which notes the message was no longer present as of Monday.
Collins said in a statement she was “grateful” to the police officers and public works employee “who responded to the defacement of public property in front of our home.”
The Bangor Police Department has not yet responded to a request for further comment on the incident.
The Senate will vote Wednesday on WHPA, which would codify abortion rights into federal law and ban many common restrictions on the procedure that GOP-led states have employed. Collins, who broadly supports abortion rights, has already said she’ll vote against the legislation, claiming it goes too far and does not have religious protections for Catholic hospitals to refuse to perform the procedure. (Democratic senators have said the bill would not have an effect on Catholic hospitals.) The bill is expected to fail in the Senate, as it previously did in February in a 46-48 vote.
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