Planned Parenthood super PAC pours $600,000 into ads against Sen. Susan Collins

Planned Parenthood Votes is allocating $600,000 to a television advertising blitz aimed at Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, accusing her of opposing abortion after she voted to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The spending marks the group’s biggest investment in the 2026 political season and reflects the high stakes of Collins’s re-election battle against Democratic challenger Troy Jackson, a race that could influence Senate control.

Collins, who describes herself as a moderate, says she supports abortions until the point of fetal viability but opposes late-term procedures except when a mother’s health is at risk, and she has defended her Kavanaugh vote as a bipartisan norm. Critics note her earlier procedural vote on President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Jackson, a former Maine Senate president, received a perfect rating from the anti-abortion group Maine Right to Life in 2010 but now endorses late-term abortions and helped pass a 2023 law allowing them after viability. The ad push is part of a $47 million national effort by Planned Parenthood to foreground abortion in the 2026 midterms and challenge the Republican majority in Congress.