Here’s who you want on your side in an election and in a fight as big as the one we’re having over abortion rights right now: Elizabeth Warren. She’s backing Jessica Cisneros in her bid to oust the last anti-abortion Democrat in the House, Henry Cuellar.
“Henry Cuellar is on the wrong side of every issue. He holds an ‘A’ rating from the NRA. He voted with Donald Trump 69% of the time during Trump’s first two years in office. He even voted to build Donald Trump’s stupid wall,” Warren tells voters. “But when it comes to reproductive rights, Henry’s got a record that makes my blood boil. Henry Cuellar supported restrictive bans on abortion.”
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“He stuck with the Texas Republicans as they passed abortion bans and as they criminalized doctors.” Warren continues. “Henry Cuellar voted to defund Planned Parenthood’s lifesaving work providing cancer screenings and birth control and women’s health care for low-income women.”
“And after Texas enacted the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the country, Henry Cuellar was the only congressional Democrat to vote against passing a bill that would codify the constitutional rights laid out in Roe v. Wade. Henry Cuellar is bad for Texas, and he’s bad for America.” That’s the bad part.
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It’s also all true. And when Cuellar took that lone Democratic vote against protecting abortion rights, Cuellar wasn’t just defiant. He was obnoxious, as highlighted here by David Nir. “By the way, when people frame this as ‘women’s health’ … if you want to call it abortion, call it abortion. It’s not a health issue.” How’s that for a misogynist, arrogant man who has absolutely no place calling himself a Democrat. He lives in Texas, the epicenter of the abortion debate. Where life has been entirely upended for thousands of women, including his constituents since the procedure was all but banned last fall, and still he shows that level of contempt for the people of his district.
Such contempt, that the first public appearance he made after the FBI raided his home and campaign office was to accept an award from a forced-birth group, “Democrats for Life.”
Texas can do a whole lot better on May 24, when run-off votes are cast. As Warren says in her message to voters, “Jessica will protect reproductive freedom. Jessica knows personal medical decisions should stay between a patient and a doctor, not politicians. She will fight to protect our freedom and our dignity to make important personal decisions including the decision to seek an abortion. Jessica is the woman for the job.”