AUSTIN, Texas – This National Infertility Awareness Week, Texans should remember that Ted Cruz’s actions speak louder than his words – and he’s been on the record for years pushing measures that would threaten access to IVF and other fertility treatments.

Here’s a reminder of Cruz’s anti-IVF record:

• 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 put pen to paper on a “personhood affirmation” declaring his support for an amendment that would ban abortion from conception.

• Cruz refused to support legislation in the Senate that would protect IVF across the country.

• In Cruz’s own words: “Every human life… should be protected in law from conception until natural death.”

And after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which Cruz praised as a “massive victory,” “personhood laws… could make the practice of intentionally or accidentally destroying embryos during the IVF process illegal.”

Watch what Cruz does – not what he says. He can’t run from his extremist record on reproductive freedom, and Texans will reject him in November for it.

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