They just don’t make mavericks like they used to.

A spokesperson said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would have signed the South Dakota legislation, "but [he] would also take the appropriate steps under state law -- in whatever state -- to ensure that the exceptions of rape, incest or life of the mother were included."(Link.)

Or maybe it’s not so much that the maverick mold is wearing out, as much as how little it takes to be a conservative maverick these days. When it’s a not a radical notion to vote to criminalize abortion and fundamentally undermine a women’s autonomy, but it is to do so while being magnanimous enough to make an exception for women who have been raped, impregnated by a family member, or may die if they’re forced to carry a pregnancy to term, that’s a pretty sad state of affairs.