Ted Cruz Pledges Support For Constitutional Amendment Banning Birth Control

[DonViejo]

August 12, 2015 By Manny Schewitz

While everyone is still transfixed by the outrage reality show that is the Trump campaign, other candidates like Ted Cruz have been scrambling behind the scenes trying to gather support wherever they can. When the Trump bubble finally pops and the whole thing goes down in flames, the most likely people to court his current supporters are Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz. (Bobby Jindal may even be further right than those two, but despite all of his desperate attempts to outdo Donald Trump and get attention, he is less popular than Hillary Clinton, in his own state of Louisiana.)

The biggest prize for 2016 GOP presidential candidates is the evangelical conservatives who are adamantly against abortion for any reason, as well as some popular forms of birth control like the IUD which they also consider to be abortion. They believe that once a sperm fertilizes an egg, anything that prevents that egg from turning into a fetus, is the same thing as abortion. I know this sounds strange to some of us, but this is actually what they think, and I can confirm that the anti-choice activists in my family subscribe to this mindset. So that’s where Ted Cruz comes in. Cruz pledged last week to the extreme anti-choice Georgia Right to Life group that he would support a personhood amendment that would declare fertilized eggs to be human beings.

So that’s where Ted Cruz comes in. Cruz pledged last week to the extreme anti-choice Georgia Right to Life group that he would support a personhood amendment that would declare fertilized eggs to be human beings.

Georgia Right to Life, one of the most outspoken proponents of the movement to grant legal “personhood” to fertilized eggs and fetuses, has endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz for president after he signed their candidate pledge promising to “support a personhood amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”

GRTL’s pledge, which the group says Cruz signed, asks candidates to affirm that “a continuum of human life and personhood begins at the moment of fertilization” and promise to protect “the civil rights of the pre-born at an embryonic or fetal level.” In practice, personhood would not only criminalize all abortions, it could also endanger some common forms of birth control and put women who have suffered miscarriages at risk of prosecution.

The Georgia group’s advocacy of sweeping personhood measures to ban abortion is so radical that it caused it to split from the National Right to Life Committee. (Source)

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[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Ted Cruz pledges to never become President? Good news! nt

[HooptieWagon]

4. True. It's just red meat for the fundies.

Im sure there's not enough states that would ratify it.

[hobbit709]

3. Carnival Cruz needs a session with the clue by four.

On more than one subject.

[sufrommich]

5. GRTL's pledge does include outlawing most forms

of birth control,there's no maybe about it. I'm not surprised Cruz endorses the crazy anti choicers at all.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. I think Cruz is a Dominionist separatist.

Just waiting for him to make common cause with Farrakhan.

[procon]

8. This is the Brass Ring.

This is the goal, the big payoff at the dark heart of the War on Women.

[Stargazer09]

9. I really wish...

...those awful people could be made to suffer for their horrible "beliefs."

Prosecuting women for having miscarriages? How can any sane human being even think of doing that? At least half of all pregnancies end in miscarriage.

All that kind of crazy-ass law would do is force women to hide their pregnancies as long as possible, thus eliminating the early prenatal care that might actually result in a healthier pregnancy.

I'm not normally a violent person, but I don't know if could handle being around people like that.

[niyad]

10. the blatant hatred for women has reached epic, insane levels.