Alabama's governor on Wednesday signed the bill to ban abortions, except when a mother's life is in jeopardy, in the latest challenge by conservatives to the 1973 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that established a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. Asked about the new law at a Thursday news conference in Washington, House of Representatives Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California said that while he opposes abortion, Alabama's law "goes further than I believe." "In my whole political career, I also believed in rape, incest or the life of the mother, there was exceptions," he said, adding that that is the Republican Party's official position and "where many of us stand." Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican viewed as vulnerable as she seeks re-election next year, told reporters Alabama's law is "terrible" and "very extreme." She said she did not think the Supreme Court would uphold it.
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