The supermarket chain Whole Foods won't buy Maine lobsters because an environmental group suspended its certification of Maine lobsters last week because a federal judge in July found that lobster gear is responsible for an estimated 2.56 entanglements of right whales per year.
But lobster fishery spokesmen argue that there is no evidence that lobster gear from a Maine fishery has ever killed a right whale.
Maine U.S. Senator Susan Collins wants to codify Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion everywhere in the country until the court overturned it in June 2022.
But Collins, a moderate Republican, also signaled that she doesn't support third-trimester abortions, and said that what she called "reasonable restrictions" are appropriate at the state level.
