AUSTIN, Texas – During a Washington Post Live interview with Leigh Ann Caldwell, Ted Cruz failed to answer for his support of “personhood,” which would ban abortion from conception, and efforts to block access to mifepristone.

Get the facts on Cruz’s anti-choice record:

• Cruz has “pledg[ed] to support a ‘personhood’ amendment to the Constitution,” which experts believe could impact not just the use of IVF but access to contraception — from IUDs to over-the-counter emergency contraceptives.  

• In 2020, Cruz organized a letter to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn demanding the FDA ban access to mifepristone. The letter baselessly calls mifepristone a “deadly pill” that “should never have been approved,” though the FDA has reaffirmed its safety several times since 2000.

• Cruz signed on to an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to limit access to mifepristone that claimed the FDA “endangered patient health and safety.”

• Business Insider reported that Cruz was “castigated” for a tweet saying “Pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness.”

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