AUSTIN, Texas – This weekend local coverage highlighted Texans calling out Ted Cruz for his anti-choice record and support for Texas’ extreme abortion ban.

On Lone Star Politics, Dallas Morning News’ Gromer Jeffers put it this way:

“This will be an election where we really see if there’s some backlash to the abortion laws that Texas lawmakers have passed here – and those laws, that Cruz supports.”

NBC 5 (Dallas-Fort Worth):

• NBC 5: “The battle over abortion continues to be front and center as we head into the November elections.”

• Lauren Miller: Cruz “supports the [Texas] ban, calling it ‘perfectly reasonable.’ I’ll be honest, I don't think it's perfectly reasonable that I was forced to leave this state, leave the ER, and spend thousands of dollars to get medical care to keep me alive – especially since many other Texans can't do that.”

Lonestar Live: ‘It’s on him’: Texas women who were denied abortions despite health risks slam Ted Cruz

By Ileana Garnand

• Two Dallas women who left the state for abortions amid health complications and later sued over Texas’ ban slammed Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for the state’s current reproductive health care landscape.

• “Ted Cruz pushed for these bans and put anti-choice justices on the Supreme Court despite Texans like me begging him not to support policies that harm us,” [Lauren] Miller said. “This ban, the reality that we are living through — it’s on him.”

• The two women were joined by Dallas OB-GYN Dr. Allison Gilbert. “Ted Cruz laid the groundwork for the disparities in care we’re all seeing today,” Gilbert said. “He said Roe v. Wade was one of our, quote, ‘greatest tragedies.’ But I can think of many more tragedies.”

• Gilbert said she’s “been forced to deny lifesaving care” to numerous patients, including women whose fetuses were diagnosed with fatal birth defects, domestic abuse survivors facing increased violence during pregnancy and a 15-year-old who was sexually assaulted by her stepfather.

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