Title: Fact-check: Do Democrats support abortion up until (and after) birth? - News - Austin American-Statesman - Austin, TX
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Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas said Democrats embrace abortion up until the moment of birth and even afterwards. Is that true? [ ELI IMADALI/AMERICAN-STATESMAN]
Eli Imadali
By Madlin Mekelburg
@madlinbmek
Thursday
Posted Feb 27, 2020 at 4:20 PM
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In the latest push from Republicans to advance a federal ban on abortion after 20 weeks and a requirement for doctors to treat infants born after an attempted abortion, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke in favor of the efforts from the Senate floor. In his remarks, Cruz urged his Democratic colleagues to support these kinds of “common sense propositions,” a departure from the party’s “extreme” position on abortion. Neither bill — versions of which GOP lawmakers have attempted to pass several times over multiple years — was approved. “We’ve seen far too many Democrats embrace extreme positions on abortion: