The day after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called Democrats’ claims that conservatives are anti-contraceptive “made-up nonsense,” Hillary Clinton’s campaign accused Cruz of engaging in “revisionist history” and argued that Cruz “tries to police women’s health care decisions and deny a war on women.”
“Ted Cruz’s colorful comments can’t hide his revisionist history on the sustained Republican effort to restrict access to women’s health care,” campaign spokeswoman Christina Reynolds said in a statement released Tuesday. The statement pointed to recent GOP efforts to defund Planned Parenthood and to block anti-discrimination measures meant to protect women from being fired for using birth control.
“As Cruz tries to police women’s health care decisions and deny a war on women, Hillary Clinton will fight every day to protect them against this seemingly endless Republican assault,” the statement said.
Cruz, who has been rising in the presidential polls in Iowa, had argued that Clinton and other Dems talk about a Republican war on women because they can’t run on Obamacare and the economy.
“Last I checked, we don’t have a rubber shortage in America,” Cruz said at a campaign event Monday. “When I was in college we had a machine in the bathroom, you put 50 cents in and voila!”
Read the full Clinton campaign statement below:
Ted Cruz’s colorful comments can’t hide his revisionist history on the sustained Republican effort to restrict access to women’s health care. He threatened to shut down the government to defund Planned Parenthood. He tried to roll back protections that prevent women from being fired for using contraception. He claimed that emergency birth control was an ‘abortifacient,’ which is both medically and scientifically incorrect. As Cruz tries to police women’s health care decisions and deny a war on women, Hillary Clinton will fight every day to protect them against this seemingly endless Republican assault.
