Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn avoid questions about Kate Cox abortion case<\/p>\n
Cruz and Cornyn were notably skittish when they were asked to weigh in on Cox\u2019s situation. Given multiple opportunities to respond to questions about the case from NBC News, both senators, who are fierce anti-abortion advocates, refused to comment on the Texas Supreme Court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n GOP presidential candidates forced to weigh in on the Kate Cox Texas abortion case<\/p>\n None of the candidates who commented on the matter this week were willing to outright say they disagreed with Texas\u2019 decision to deny Kate Cox an abortion, but they also weren\u2019t jumping to defend the Republican politicians in the state.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n GOP presidential candidates forced to weigh in on the Kate Cox Texas abortion case (slightly different article)<\/p>\n The Cox case has tested even some of Texas\u2019 own politicians. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn \u2014 who are both strong opponents of abortion \u2014 refused to comment on it when NBC News pressed them about it Tuesday. Cornyn said he wouldn\u2019t comment because he wasn\u2019t \u201ca state official<\/a>,\u201d and Cruz simply directed all questions to his press office.<\/p>\n Read more at NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn avoid questions about Kate Cox abortion case Cruz and Cornyn were notably skittish when they were asked to weigh in on Cox\u2019s situation. Given multiple opportunities to respond to questions about the case from NBC News, both senators, who are fierce anti-abortion advocates, refused to comment on the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,215,95,10],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion-bans","tag-anti-abortion-candidates","tag-politics","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}