Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) favors passing legislation to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into law, her office told NBC News.

Said a spokeswoman: “Senator Collins supports the right to an abortion and believes that the protections in the Roe and Casey decisions should be passed into law. She has had some conversations with her colleagues about this and is open to further discussions.”

Because after personally ushering in an end to legal abortion, she now engages in this cruel exercise in futility, which she knows has no chance of ever happening, all so people won’t think of her as a raging asshole.

(ps, they still will)