Assclown Alert: Playing dumb about abortion bans with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz

Even though U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has gone to Herculean lengths to avoid talking about abortion this election season, turns out John Adams was right when he said facts are stubborn things.

The Texas Republican was one of 26 senators who signed onto a brief this spring urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a Biden administration directive that hospitals should continue to provide emergency abortion care after the demise of Roe v. Wade.

The senators filed the document — first reported on by Rolling Stone magazine — in support of Idaho’s Republican attorney general, who sought to overturn the administration’s guidance that emergency rooms should still provide emergency abortion care.

The brief accuses the White House of pulling a fast one to ensure people still have access to elective abortions. It argues that the existing federal law invoked by the Department of Health and Human Services in its guidance doesn’t specifically mention abortion.

“Consequently, the DOJ is seeking to contrive a health exception for emergency room doctors to perform elective induced abortions, which do not consider the unborn child as a second patient, and, in fact, directly intend harm to the child,” the filing states.

Those who watched Cruz’s sole televised debate with Democratic rival U.S. Rep. Colin Allred may remember that he repeatedly refused to say whether he unyieldingly supports Texas’ extreme abortion ban, which has no exception for rape or incest. Under the state’s ban, some women have also faced serious health issues due to problem pregnancies doctors have balked at ending, fearing prosecution.

Maybe next time assclown Ted tries to duck a question, he should refrain from signing onto a legal brief that makes it abundantly clear just how extreme and dangerous his beliefs are.

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