While campaigning in Iowa on Monday, Ted Cruz answered a question on contraception during a question and answer session, and his reply has made news all over. When an attendee asked the Texas senator about "making contraception available to women who want to control their own bodies," Cruz replied by taking on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and accused her of attacking the GOP as "the condom police," and criticized what he called the Democratic Party's "(concocted) war on women."
"Hillary Clinton embraces abortion on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth. Partial-birth abortion with taxpayer funding, with no notification for parents in any circumstances - 91 percent of Americans say that's nuts. So what do they do, they try to shift it. The war on women wasn't that, it was contraceptives. Now listen, I have been a conservative my entire life. I have never met anybody, any conservative who wants to ban contraceptives," Cruz said, "according to CNN Politics.
"As I noted, Heidi and I, we have two little girls. I'm very glad we don't have 17," he added for the hundreds of people in the audience. "And it's a great example when the war on women came up, Republicans would curl up in a ball, they'd say, 'Don't hurt me.' Jiminy Cricket!"
Cruz reiterated that the charge that conservatives are anti-contraceptives is a "made-up, nonsense example," reports The Guardian.
"Last I checked we don't have a rubber shortage in America. When I was in college we had a machine in the bathroom, you put 50 cents in and voila! So yes, anyone who wants contraceptives can access them, but it's an utterly made-up nonsense issue," Cruz said, making the audience more uncomfortable, reports MSNBC.
He continued:
"Imagine for a second you're Hillary Clinton. You're trying to think, 'How do I run?' Well you can't run on the economy because we have the lowest percentage of Americans working any year since 1977. You can't run on Obamacare because millions of people have lost their jobs, lost their health care, lost their doctors, seen their premiums skyrocket. You certainly can't run on foreign policy because every country you touched as secretary of state is a disaster. So what do you do? You go, 'Ah, ha! Condom police. I'm gonna make up a completely made up threat and try to scare a bunch of folks into thinking someone's going to steal their birth control. What nonsense," Cruz said, while declaring that Clinton was running what he called the "condom police" to distract from other policies and "scare" voters, reports CNN Politics.
