Jasmine Crockett Hits Ted Cruz With Brutal Reality Check On Texas Abortion Bans

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Friday reminded Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that he’s a politician and not her doctor as she went after GOP officials for their defense of the state’s strictabortionbans.

“I don’t want my governor, I don’t want AG Paxton, I definitely don’t want Ted Cruz telling me what to do with my body if my doctor has a recommendation because the last time I checked, I don’t need any of them to be my doctor,” she told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, referring to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

“I don’t want them to be my elected officials,” she added.

Crockett appeared on MSNBC as Hayes highlighted the death of Nevaeh Crain, a Texas teenager and one of at least two pregnant women in the state who died after doctors delayed treating miscarriages, ProPublica reported.

“When people talk about women’s lives being on the line in this election, it’s not a slogan, it’s not hyperbole,” said Hayes. He added that women are seeing “preventable deaths right now” due to GOP-backed abortion bans in multiple states following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.

Hayes later turned to Republicans getting “slippery” on the abortion issue, including Cruz, who he noted has been “anti-abortion his entire career” and is currently in a tight race to defend his Senate seat in Texas.

The MSNBC host played a clip of Cruz giving a nonanswer on abortion during a debate last month with his Democratic opponent, Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas).

“Why is this an issue you won’t address, about saying whether you support or oppose exceptions like rape and incest?” asked moderator Jason Whitely after Cruz repeatedly dodged the question.

“Jason, I’m curious, why do you keep asking me that?” said Cruz, before pivoting to talk of Allred’s opposition to state law requiring parental notification for minors wanting abortions.

Hayes asked Crockett if she has “any doubt in her mind” over where Cruz is on abortion.

“I have zero doubts,” Crockett said.

She later continued, “When you can’t answer a question, that is the answer, right? And the idea that we should just trust you, we shouldn’t trust you. Not when people are dying. You guys are not going to save us. You are going to, again, inflict more pain.”

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