Dems push ‘radical’ citizen-funded, unrestricted abortion

Ted Cruz blasts bill putting U.S. 'in company with North Korea'

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An emotionally charged Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday highlighted the escalating controversy between social conservatives and Democrats who are trying to establish a constitutional right to government-funded birth control and unrestricted access to abortion.

At issue was the Democrats’ Women’s Health Protection Act, S.1696, a bill that would eliminate nearly all state limitations on abortion and bar states from adopting new ones.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the bill “would make abortion common, without limit and paid for by the American taxpayer.”

“That is a radical view held by a tiny minority of the American public but championed by activists in the Democratic Party,” he said.

Cruz said the majority of Texans do not want to see late-term abortions made a legally acceptable procedure.

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