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ChampionedReproductive Rights

Use her veto power to block any effort to undermine, roll back, or eliminate the right to safe and legal abortion in Maine.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

All three cited sources are reachable and every quoted passage appears verbatim, confirmed by fetching each page. (1) The maine.gov Executive Order page (July 5, 2022) contains the exact quote about prohibiting state agencies from cooperating with other states' abortion investigations, documents the extradition-refusal and barrier-removal directives, and even states on-page that "Governor Mills committed to using her veto authority to protect Maine's existing legal protections for abortion access" — directly corroborating the veto promise. (2) The maine.gov LD 1619 signing page (July 19, 2023) contains the exact "get politicians out of reproductive health care" quote and documents her signing legislation removing Maine's post-viability restriction. (3) The Maine Public headline appears verbatim and confirms she championed "the governor's bill" making Maine one of the least-restrictive states. The evidence supports CHAMPIONED: the promise was a defensive veto commitment, and no anti-abortion bill ever reached her desk (Democratic-controlled Legislature), so the literal veto was never triggered — but Mills went beyond passive defense, using her executive order and championing LD 1619 to both protect and expand abortion access. The rating transparently discloses that the promised instrument (a veto) was never used and holds confidence at 0.85 for that reason, which is appropriate and not an overstatement. One minor looseness: the LD 1619 maine.gov page notes she "did not introduce the bills herself" though she championed them with legislative leadership, so the rationale's "personally introduced" phrasing is slightly loose — but "championed" is well-supported and does not change the verdict.

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