🔵 Mills joins a coalition of governors aiming to expand abortion rights.
◉ The governor joined 18 of her Democratic counterparts across the country in announcing the Reproductive Freedom Alliance on Tuesday. The group of governors is "focused on protecting and expanding reproductive freedom" after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights last year.
◉ Mills is leaning hard into abortion-rights expansions in Maine, which already has one of the nation's most liberal sets of access laws. After saying during the 2022 campaign that she did not want changes, she rolled out a set of proposals in January including one allowing abortions after 24 weeks if doctors approve.
◉ Legislative Republicans and their anti-abortion allies have signaled a fight on those measures while submitting some proposed limits of their own.
🇺🇦 In Germany, a Maine senator said to "hurry up" Ukraine aid.
◉ Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats and sits on the intelligence panel, joined a bipartisan delegation to the Munich Security Conference over the weekend that was led by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, and Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina.
◉ In an interview with NBC News' Andrea Mitchell, he expressed concern that Russia is winding up for a new offensive in Ukraine and that Leopard and Abrams tanks being supplied by the U.S. and European countries may not get there in time to aid President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
◉ "That's the issue, and I just finished a meeting with the German foreign minister and that was my message: Hurry up," King said. |
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