{"id":2197,"date":"2022-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/us-senator-jeff-merkley-an-oregon-democrat-says-he-is-fighting-like-hell-to-protect-abortion-rights-22\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:05:08","slug":"us-senator-jeff-merkley-an-oregon-democrat-says-he-is-fighting-like-hell-to-protect-abortion-rights-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/us-senator-jeff-merkley-an-oregon-democrat-says-he-is-fighting-like-hell-to-protect-abortion-rights-22\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat, says he is \u2018fighting like hell\u2019 to protect abortion rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Politico released&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">a draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion<\/a>&nbsp;showing that the conservative majority would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that has protected the legal right to obtain an abortion nationwide for nearly 50 years. A final opinion on the case currently before the court concerning abortion isn&rsquo;t expected until the term ends in late June or July, however. Nonetheless, Democratic lawmakers from Oregon have been swift to condemn&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oregoncapitalchronicle.com\/briefs\/oregon-democrats-lash-out-at-supreme-court-ruling-that-would-overturn-roe-v-wade\/\">overturning<\/a>&nbsp;Roe v. Wade, which would effectively leave it up to individual states to ban or allow abortion procedures. We speak with U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, to hear about efforts coalescing on Capitol Hill to protect abortion rights, including Merkley&rsquo;s longstanding campaign to end the filibuster.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Politico released&nbsp;a draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion&nbsp;showing that the conservative majority would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that has protected the legal right to obtain an abortion nationwide for nearly 50 years. 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