Oregon Victory

PORTLAND – A handful of demonstrators were outside the Heathman Hotel in downtown Portland Monday night to protest U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith’s (R-Pendleton) stance on abortion rights.

The protestors held signs warning Portlanders of Smith’s record and passed out extra copies of a mailer the Democratic Party of Oregon sent out last week detailing Smith’s votes that endanger a woman’s right to choose. The DPO said those votes range from support for conservative judges to votes that would criminalize abortion even if the health of the mother was at stake.

“If Gordon Smith has his way, he would outlaw a woman’s right to choose,” DPO spokesman Marc Siegel said at the protest.