AUSTIN, Texas – The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Ted Cruz is – still – lying about his authorship of a national abortion ban and refusing to take accountability for putting Texas women’s lives at risk.

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: In Texas Senate race, Cruz and Allred trade charges of extreme positions on abortion

By Eleanor Dearman

• Cruz said it’s false that Republicans want a national abortion ban.

• ‘There’s not a Republican that I know of in the Senate who’s ever introduced a national ban,’ Cruz said. ‘That’s a totally made up claim that he repeats every day.’

• But Cruz introduced a federal bill in 2021 with South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham — the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act — that, if passed, would have made it a crime to perform an abortion 20 weeks or more after fertilization.

• Soon after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, Cruz expressed support for Texas’ abortion law.

• ‘In the state of Texas, the laws will now be decided by the state Legislature, and in the state of Texas we have significant limits restricting abortion, because the state of Texas is protecting the right to life,’ Cruz said in a video interview published on June 24, 2022. ‘I agree with that.’

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