And surely Republican-backed abstinence-only sex “education” – like the 2012 Texas Republican education platform that featured “the opposition of condom distribution” – was about something other than, uh, opposing birth control. An attendee reportedly asked his thoughts on “making contraception available for women”.
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The presidential candidate reminisced about his alma mater’s ever-flowing rivers of latex penis-covers at a town hall in Iowa on Monday night, claiming that Hillary Clinton exaggerates the Republican Party’s war on women.
Because of the Cruz-backed bill, Rubio said, “If God forbid there were a terrorist attack in America tomorrow, we would not be able to gather the phone records of individuals that might be part of that plot in a time-effective way”. “Anyone who wants contraceptives can access them, but it’s an utterly made-up nonsense issue”.
“Let me be very clear: I don’t believe Donald Trump is gonna be the nominee”, U.S. Sen.
“Some people who were backing the outsiders are backing up and maybe thinking, we want someone with a little bit of experience in how government works”, Hagle added. Ted Cruz, just as the GOP presidential hopeful’s campaign is gaining steam in the Hawkeye State.
On multiple occasions at the Value Voters Summit previous year, Cruz, who opposes abortion under any circumstance except when it endangers the woman’s life, inaccurately called a form of contraception, “abortion-inducing drugs” and “abortifacients”.
Another recent incident that put Trump under heat is his mockery of a disabled reporter. You go ah ha! Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Fox News. The last Republican candidate to win the Iowa caucuses and the general election, or even the Republican nomination was George W. Bush in 2004. “You’re Hillary Clinton and you’re trying to figure out how to run”, Cruz said, ticking off the issues on which the Democratic candidate can not run on: The economy, Obamacare, foreign policy.
Republicans in Washington have speculated for months that Cruz, who has largely steered clear of criticizing the GOP front-runner, has been angling for the celebrity billionaire’s basis of support.
The bill has met with opposition from Senate Democrats, who support the idea but do not support the language of the bill, which doesn’t require insurance companies to continue covering the cost of birth control if it’s supplied over-the-counter.
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This is a result of the anti-abortion movement’s quiet shift back toward anti-contraception policies, including their plans to close down Planned Parenthood, enact sweeping restrictions on health insurance for contraception and, increasingly, pass “personhood” measures that, if successful, could ban certain forms of contraception.
