AUSTIN, Texas – Ted Cruz has worked for years to undermine Texans’ reproductive rights and take away their ability to make their own healthcare decisions. Get the facts about Cruz’s record below:

Cruz supports “personhood,” which would threaten access to IVF and birth control, and ban all abortions:

• Cruz has “enthusiastically” supported so-called “personhood” measures that could impact not just the use of IVF but access to contraception — from IUDs to over-the-counter emergency contraceptives.  

• Cruz signed on to a “personhood affirmation” declaring his support for a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion from conception.

Cruz proudly supports Texas’ extreme abortion ban:

• Cruz said “In the state of Texas we have significant limits restricting abortion… and I agree with that.”

• He called the state ban “perfectly reasonable.”

Cruz is against exceptions for rape and incest:

• “Cruz said states should be allowed to ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest.”

• Cruz promised to support “any…legislation that defends the rights of all persons without exceptions…”

• Cruz was asked whether he was “against abortion even in cases of rape or incest.” He responded, “Yes.”

• Cruz has said: “When it comes to rape… I don’t believe it’s the child’s fault.”

Cruz pushed for the end of Roe, which has let many of these extreme bans go into effect:

• Cruz has long believed “the right outcome is to overturn Roe v. Wade,” and said that he prayed for it to be overturned.

• Cruz repeatedly filed amicus briefs urging SCOTUS to overturn Roe v. Wade.

• He praised the Dobbs decision as “nothing short of a massive victory.”

In the Senate – right now – Cruz is leading the charge to ban medication abortion:

• In 2020, Cruz organized a letter demanding that 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.

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

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