Jasmine Crockett slams Ted Cruz with brutal reality check on Texas abortion bans – Yahoo! Voices

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) reminded Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that he is not a doctor Friday as she went after GOP officials for their defense of the state’s strict abortion bans.

“I don’t want my governor, I don’t [Texas Attorney General Ken] Paxton, I definitely don’t want Ted Cruz telling me what to do with my body if my doctor has a recommendation, because last time I checked, I don’t need one of them to be my doctor,” she said in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.

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

Crockett appeared in a segment in which Hayes highlighted the death of Neve 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 at stake in this election, it’s not a slogan, it’s not hyperbole,” said Hayes, who added that women are dying “preventable deaths right now” because of GOP-backed abortion bans in multiple states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Hayes later addressed Republicans who are 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 dodging an answer about abortion during his debate with Democratic opponent Colin Allred (D-Texas) last month.

“Why is that a question you’re not going to address, about whether you support or oppose the rape and incest exemptions?” moderator Jason Whiteley asked after Cruz repeatedly dodged his question.

“Jason, I’m curious, why do you keep asking me that?” Cruz said, before going on to talk about Allred’s opposition to a state law requiring parents to be notified of minors seeking abortions.

Hayes asked Crockett if there was “any doubt in his mind” about where Cruz was on the abortion.

“I don’t have any doubts,” Crockett said.

She later continued, “When you can’t answer a question, that’s the answer, right? And the idea that we just have to trust you, we don’t have to trust you. Not when people die. You guys are not going to save us, you are going to cause more pain again.

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