Living in the nation's capital last month while the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about same-sex marriage had an effect on Collins, who says "the strain of hiding my sexuality became almost unbearable" at that time.
Should the United States now disrupt the British program due to its inability to supply D-5 missiles when and in the quantity called for by bilateral agreements, it could have a catastrophic effect on the viability of the U.K. Trident and severely strain relations between two key allied governments.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D--Calif.) nonetheless defended the effort, saying, in effect, that contraceptives were good for future economic growth because fewer babies would mean less strain on the state and federal governments.