2024 TX Senate race: on Abortion
Carl Sherman:
Sherman is not pro-abortion, but pro-choice
Every person should have the right to make their own healthcare decisions. Access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare, including authorized and safe legal abortion services, is essential for women to have control over their own bodies and futures.
Sherman is not pro-abortion, but pro-choice. As senator, Sherman will support the Women's Health Protection Act of 2023, a bill aimed at protecting the choices and freedom of patients and their doctors.
Source: 2024 Texas Senate campaign website CarlSherman.com
Feb 15, 2024
Roland Gutierrez:
Total Pro-Life Score: 0% by Texas Right to Life
When Representative Matt Krause proposed increasing the funding for the life-affirming Alternatives to Abortion Program, Gutierrez voted against the Pro-Life,
Pro-Woman amendment. Gutierrez went out of his way to oppose a Pro-Life amendment to prohibit hospitals that commit elective abortions from receiving tax funds.
Source: Texas Right to Life press release on 2024 Texas Senate race
Nov 1, 2019
Colin Allred:
Protect the freedoms and rights of women
Abortion : Ban or legal?- Colin Allred (D): Legal. Would work "to protect the freedoms and rights of women." Calls Texas's abortion ban "cruel." Sponsored bills to enshrine federal rights to abortion and out-of-state
services.
- Ted Cruz (R): Ban. Supreme Court reversing Roe v. Wade is "a massive victory for life." Opposed putting the right to abortion into federal law. Sponsored a bill criminalizing performing abortions after 20 weeks.
Source: Guides.vote candidate survey on 2024 Texas Senate race
Aug 8, 2024
Ted Cruz:
Reversing Roe was a massive victory for life
Abortion : Ban or legal?- Colin Allred (D): Legal. Calls Texas's abortion ban "cruel." Sponsored bills to enshrine federal rights to abortion and out-of-state services.
- Ted Cruz (R): Ban. Supreme Court
reversing Roe v. Wade is "a massive victory for life." Opposed putting the right to abortion into federal law. In 2016 said there should be no exceptions for rape or incest. Sponsored a bill criminalizing performing abortions after 20 weeks.
Source: Guides.vote candidate survey on 2024 Texas Senate race
Aug 8, 2024
Colin Allred:
When Ted Cruz says he's pro-life, he doesn't mean yours
[Democratic challenger Colin] Allred has made restoring abortion access a key part of his campaign, while [Republican incumbent Ted] Cruz has largely avoided the issue. Pressed on where he stands on the question of rape and incest exceptions, Cruz said
the matter should be settled at the state level and declined to stake out a position. "You know, Congressman Allred is running all sorts of ads saying that I made this decision," Cruz said. "I don't serve in the state Legislature. I'm not the governor."
Allred has leaned into the state abortion ban in the homestretch of the election, disputing Cruz's characterization of himself as "pro-life." "You're not pro-life," Allred said, turning to address
Cruz. "It's not pro-life to deny women care so long that they can't have children anymore. It's not pro-life to force a victim of rape to carry their rapist's baby. Understand that when Ted Cruz says he's pro-life, he doesn't mean yours."
Source: Texas Tribune on 2024 Texas Senate debate
Oct 15, 2024
Ted Cruz:
Should be settled at the state level; I'm not the governor
[Democratic challenger Colin] Allred has made restoring abortion access a key part of his campaign, while [Republican incumbent Ted] Cruz has largely avoided the issue. Pressed on where he stands on the question of rape and incest exceptions, Cruz said
the matter should be settled at the state level and declined to stake out a position. "You know, Congressman Allred is running all sorts of ads saying that I made this decision," Cruz said. "I don't serve in the state Legislature. I'm not the governor."
Allred has leaned into the state abortion ban in the homestretch of the election, disputing Cruz's characterization of himself as "pro-life." "You're not pro-life," Allred said, turning to address
Cruz. "It's not pro-life to deny women care so long that they can't have children anymore. It's not pro-life to force a victim of rape to carry their rapist's baby. Understand that when Ted Cruz says he's pro-life, he doesn't mean yours."
Source: Texas Tribune on 2024 Texas Senate debate
Oct 15, 2024
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