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Facing a tight race, Ted Cruz goes quiet on abortion
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has been a loud anti-abortion crusader throughout his political career.
But as reproductive rights loom over the election season as a key issue for voters, Cruz is uncharacteristically quiet.
The Texas Republican, running for a third term in the Senate, is locked in a tight race against U.S. Sen. Colin Allred, D-Dallas, who has made restoring access to abortion and blaming Cruz for the toppling of Roe v. Wade central to his campaign.
This past week, Allred’s campaign, boosted by an influx of cash from Senate Democrats, began airing an ad on TV and streaming platforms across the state that blasted Cruz for his anti-abortion record.
Texas has banned almost all abortions — including in cases of rape and incest — since Roe was overturned. Since then, Cruz has been more careful about how he engages on the topic. He has repeatedly called abortion a state issue, while offering more vocal support for in vitro fertilization.
Cruz, through a spokesperson, declined a request for an interview. The Texas Tribune reached out to his campaign eight times over six weeks to ask about his positions, posing nine initial questions via email and several follow ups on topics ranging from his past support for a national abortion ban to how he squares his belief in fetal personhood with his support for IVF — a process which routinely involves the disposal of fertilized embryos.
Cruz’s campaign did not respond directly to questions, instead providing links to previous statements he had made on the topic in other interviews. Those statements did not address several specific questions.
While Democrats have not won statewide in Texas in 30 years, the issue could pose a risk for Cruz, who squeaked to victory in 2018 against Beto O’Rourke by less than three percentage points. Though polling shows Texans prioritizing issues like border security and the economy over abortion, more Texans believe that the state’s abortion laws are too strict, and Democrats are banking on the issue boosting turnout nationwide in a presidential election year.
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Abortion ban
When the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in 2022, Cruz celebrated the decision as “nothing short of a massive victory for life” that would not outlaw abortion across the country, but leaves “abortion policy up to the states and returns power to the American people.”
“This is a momentous day, and yet the fight for life doesn’t end with the Dobbs decision,” he said in a statement after the ruling. “It simply begins a new chapter. I’ve been proud to stand for life in the U.S. Senate, and I will continue to do so as we navigate the path ahead.”
Republicans have faced scrutiny in recent months about their past efforts to pass a federal abortion ban, with Democrats warning that former President Donald Trump would press for further restrictions.
In 2021, before Roe was overturned, Cruz cosponsored a 20-week federal abortion ban, which included exceptions for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. He cosponsored a similar ban at least six times over his Senate career. He did not sign onto a 15-week ban when it was introduced in September 2022. In 2023, he co-introduced a bill that would allow states to exclude medical providers that perform abortions from state Medicaid funding. None of those measures advanced through Congress.
Cruz did not respond directly to a question about whether he still supports a federal ban. But in a past interview his campaign provided to the Tribune, he said that abortion policy is up to each state.
“Questions of what the rules of abortion are will be made by state officials in Austin, the state legislature, the governor. And the situation we have right now, every state makes different rules,” Cruz said in an August interview with WFAA.
Trump, during the vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, said on social media for the first time that he would veto a national abortion ban, after backing a series of shifting positions over the course of his third campaign for the White House.
Abortion exemptions
Cruz declined to directly answer whether he thought Texas should add carveouts for rape and incest and if he thought the state’s exception to save the life of the mother was working.
In the WFAA interview, he pointed to legislation he has supported with those exceptions, while reiterating that the decision would be made at the state level.
But during his 2016 presidential run, Cruz said at a town hall in Wisconsin that he did not support an exemption for rape.
“When it comes to rape, rape is a horrific crime against the humanity of a person, and needs to be punished and punished severely,” Cruz said. “But at the same time, as horrible as that crime is, I don’t believe it’s the child’s fault.”
Texas law allows abortions only in instances where the life of the mother is at risk. Critics, including Allred, say that exemption is unclear and has resulted in women — such as Kate Cox, who was denied an emergency abortion by the Texas Supreme Court after finding out her pregnancy was no longer viable — being unable to access necessary medical care.
When asked if he thought the law needed clarifying or changing, Cruz’s campaign pointed to an interview he sat for on CNN. When asked during that interview if he agreed with the court’s ruling in Cox’s case, he said the Texas Supreme Court “was right” to direct the Texas Medical Board to “set the rules.”
“I think there’s a very good argument that she fell under that exception,” he said. “But what the Texas Supreme Court said in its opinion is it asked the Texas Medical Board go in and set clear rules.”
The Texas Medical Board adopted guidance in June for how doctors should interpret the state’s new abortion laws, but declined to provide a list of cases in which an abortion should be permitted.
IVF
This year, Cruz has become increasingly vocal about his support for IVF, which he calls a “miracle.”
In February, a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court sparked a nationwide panic about the future of access to IVF. That decision said that frozen embryos should be considered people, and that anyone who disposed of them could be liable for wrongful death. The Alabama Legislature subsequently passed a law to protect fertility treatments.
In May, Cruz introduced a bill with U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, that he said would protect IVF on the federal level by excluding any state that bans the treatment from federal Medicaid dollars.
“It simply does what needs to be done: safeguarding the right of couples to grow their family if they choose to use IVF, because this should not be a political issue,” Cruz said on the Senate floor in September describing his bill.
The bill, which Democrats blocked, would not create a statutory right to access fertility treatments. Critics panned it as lip service and “incentivizing far-right, anti-choice policymakers in deep red states to defund health care for low-income Americans” without barring them from also outlawing IVF.
Cruz voted against Democratic legislation that would create a federal right to access fertility care, saying the bill infringes on religious freedoms — though the measure does not require medical professionals who may oppose IVF to provide any treatments.
Cruz also did not respond to a question asking if he supported an idea Trump floated to make IVF free for all Americans. Trump did not explain how that proposal would be implemented.
Allred said he would support the Democratic IVF bill, which was backed by two Senate Republicans, and he cosponsored a related measure in the House to federally protect fertility treatments.
Cruz did not respond to questions about whether he believes an embryo created through IVF constitutes a person.
In 2015, during his presidential campaign, Cruz signed a pledge to back a personhood amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would “guarantee a constitutional right to life for every innocent human being, from earliest biological beginning until natural death.”
He embraced personhood measures in February 2016, before ducking questions about the topic a couple of months later.
Cruz has argued that his support for IVF is not inconsistent with a belief in fetal personhood by pointing to states that have adopted both personhood amendments and IVF protections.
“There are three states — Alabama, Georgia and Missouri — all of which have adopted personhood amendments, and all of which protect IVF,” he said on the Senate floor in June. “The Democrats maintain that IVF is in jeopardy, and yet the facts are precisely to the contrary.”
After the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision, IVF providers paused treatments across the state. Most resumed services once the Alabama Legislature passed protections for fertility treatments. But that law did not address the question of personhood, and simply provides immunity to IVF providers and patients.
Filibuster
At the same time, Cruz has characterized Allred as an extremist on abortion and accused him of supporting “abortion literally up until the moment of birth.”
Allred’s campaign rejected that claim as a scare tactic, providing a statement he made to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in response to Cruz’s allegations.
“I find it offensive that Ted Cruz would knowingly misstate not only my position but what has been the standard in this country for the last 50 years,” he said, saying a return to Roe would allow states to restrict abortions after viability while also leaving the decision of whether to have an abortion to patients and their doctors.
Meanwhile, Allred has tried to pin the end of Roe and subsequent state abortion bans on Cruz’s support for anti-abortion state lawmakers and his position on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, which advanced three conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices.
“He is singularly responsible for what’s happening in our state,” Allred said.
Allred has been a consistent abortion rights advocate throughout his tenure in Congress.
After he was elected to the U.S. House in 2018, Allred cosponsored and voted in favor of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would create a federal protection for abortion access. The bill passed the House in 2021 and 2022 but died in the Senate. Allred has also spoken out against local efforts to ban the use of roads and highways to obtain an abortion out of state.
“We have to restore freedom to Texas women and Texas families,” he said. “And the way we do that is going to be at the federal level.”
If elected to the Senate, Allred said he would support changing the filibuster to enable passage of a federal abortion protection law. The Senate requires 60 votes to move forward on any legislation — a threshold meant to protect the minority party’s power and foster bipartisanship, but which has stymied Democrats’ efforts to pass abortion and voting rights legislation over Republican resistance.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, recently reiterated her support for carving out an exception to the filibuster for abortion legislation — though institutionalists warn that lowering the threshold to a simple majority would be a slippery slope that could lead to less durable reforms and sap the minority’s leverage when the other party comes into power.
Still, Allred argued that the Senate now exists in an “ahistorical period in which the filibuster is being abused,” and that the chamber ought to return to a rule that required any senator blocking a bill to speak on the Senate floor for the duration of their filibuster.
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Day 3 of the Texas (UIL) high school football state championships awarded three more state titles Friday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Just under 45,000 people watched parts of three games, seeing historic wins happen, in some aspects, in all three games.
Read below for recaps and final scores of each of the state finals Friday.
Carthage 28, Waco La Vega 14
ARLINGTON — Carthage secured a pair of milestones in the Class 4A Division II championship game.
The Bulldogs pulled away in the second half to beat Waco La Vega, 28-14, in front of 13,194 fans Friday morning at AT&T Stadium.
The championship is the 10th for the Bulldogs — all under Coach Scott Surratt since 2008 — and moves the East Texas school into second-place all-time on the UIL leaderboard.
Only Aledo, with 12, has more titles than the Bulldogs. Two of the two have come against La Vega — winning 42-27 in 2009.
Carthage was previously tied for second with Katy before a second-half surge helped them fend off the Pirates.
“You don’t get lucky 10 times and what I mean by that, not to toot my own horn, I’m talking about the administration,” Surratt said. “You got to have great administration because a lot of the time, administration changes in and out and you see guys win two or three and all of the sudden it goes away. And then my coaches are unbelievable coaches. They let me hire great people and we pay them well for them to stay in Carthage and you know we haven’t had a lot of turnover. We have great players. I don’t deny that, but you still got to play this game. A lot of people have great players.”
The victory was also No. 100 in the school history, improving the Bulldogs to 100-30-1.
Carthage held a 14-7 lead at halftime, and then after neither team scored in the third, the Bulldogs (15-1) scored twice in the fourth to seal the win. Quarterback Jett Surratt threw a pair of touchdowns to Junior Henderson — 25 yards and 19 yards — to seal the win.
Jett Surratt didn’t have his best game passing — going 8-for-23 — but threw for 112 yards and the two fourth-quarter scores.
Kelwin ‘KJ’ Edwards had 18 carries for 188 yards and two first-half touchdowns. He had a 21-yard touchdown run in the first quarter and then broke open an 86-yard touchdown in the second quarter that broke a 7-7 tie to give the Bulldogs lead for the final time. Edwards was named the Offensive MVP of the game.
The Carthage defense was stout all game and gave up only 208 yards of total offense — and 79 of that came in the final 2:11 of the contest.
Linebacker Daquives Beck was named the Defensive MVP of the game for Carthage with 10 tackles, 3 1/2 TFL and one sack. The Bulldogs had seven sacks from five different players.
La Vega scored on a 4-yard run by backup quarterback Jayven Hernandez on the final play of the game. The Pirates (12-4) kicked the extra point with 0:00 on the board and then the celebration for the Bulldogs started.
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“Our defense was out there just playing lights out; so we’re proud of those guys and proud of everybody. I could care less about the stat sheet here like always … but if it just had state championship on it, it would be great.”
Celina 55, Kilgore 21
Just hours after Carthage moved out of a tie for second place into second place by itself for the most state titles in UIL history, Celina moved into a tie for third place with its 9th state title.
Celina is now tied with Katy and one behind Carthage.
The state title is the first for Bill Elliott, the head coach for the Bobcats since 2012. He is the third head coach in school history to win a title, following Butch Ford — who he replaced — and G.A. Moore, who he played for in high school at Pilot Point.
“It just means so much (winning No. 9),” Elliott said. “Growing up playing for G.A. Moore or ‘Coach Moore’ in high school and then coaching with them [Moore and Ford] for all those years and winning state championships like we did under both of them. It just feels satisfying to actually get one while I was a head coach. It really didn’t matter to me because that is not my identity but it does feel good to have that.”
The Bobcats overcame an early deficit to roll to a 55-21 win over Kilgore in the second game at AT&T Stadium behind a banner day from quarterback Bowe Bentley.
The junior was named the Offensive MVP of the finals thanks to going 9-for-14 passing with 265 yards and 5 touchdowns — which tied the state record for Class 4A. Celina finished with 456 yards of total offense and it was the seventh time with 50 or more points in a game in 2024.
“Coach Elliott always says, ‘Who’s going to be the hammer? And who’s going to be the nail?’” Celina offensive lineman Tyler Moody said. “We’re usually the hammer this year, I would say.”
For a while, which one the Bobcats (16-0) would be was up in the air. Celina scored twice in the first quarter and led 13-7 after a blocked PAT.
Kilgore (13-3) scored on the first play of the second quarter on a 20-yard pass from Kayson Brooks to Javen Towns. The good PAT by Eddie Jimenez gave the Bulldogs their first lead of the game, 14-13.
The next seven scores were by Celina to turn a deficit into a 55-14 lead.
Bentley connected with Colton Rodriguez for touchdowns of 50 and 63 yards and hit Wyatt Villareal for a 21-yard score to tie the record. Kicker Braden Johnson made a pair of field goals, Harrison Williams ran for a 7-yard score and defensive back Luke Biagini returned an interception 27 yards for a score. The junior was named the Defensive MVP of the game, adding 9 tackles and 1/2 sack.
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Richmond Randle 38, Dallas South Oak Cliff 35
On paper, the Class 5A Division II title game was a David vs. Goliath showdown with South Oak Cliff in the finals for the fourth year in a row vs. Dr. Thomas E. Randle High School — a third-year program making its debut in the UIL finals.
The upstart Lions pulled the upset with a 38-35 win in the late game Friday in front of 15,032 fans.
Randle head coach Brian Randle — coaching for a school named after his father — liked the position his Lions were, entering with a 15-0 mark.
“To get here four years in a row, that’s a big deal and those guys are great coaches,” said Randle, who was an assistant at Katy Mayde Creek before taking the team before the first varsity season in 2023. “They do an outstanding job and our biggest thing was not to flinch. We have a saying and we put it on the board. We bully bullies, right? Last year, when we played [Fort Bend] Marshall in the playoffs in the first round, we were the underdog and we talked about it. No one gave us a chance and that’s a good thing. It’s easy to rally behind if we are the underdog.”
The second half featured four lead changes and the Lions (16-0) saw a 10-point halftime lead disappear quickly.
South Oak Cliff (13-3) got a pair of long touchdown runs to take a 28-24 lead. Mikail Trotter had a 75-yard touchdown and Damond ‘Debo’ Williams had an 85-yard score on the next drive.
The Golden Bears were up 28-21 less than 3 minutes into the second half.
The Lions regained the lead late in the third on a 21-yard run by Keilan Sweeny, a running back/wide receiver/quarterback weapon for Randle. He rolled out to his right pumped faked before just running toward the end zone, scoring with 1:09 left.
Randle was up 31-28 going into the fourth but the Golden Bears took the lead again. Quarterback Carter Kopecky scored on a 22-yard keeper for the third lead change of the half.
The lead for the Golden Bears lasted 10 seconds.
Sean Smith got the kickoff and ran it back for a 72-yard score, making it 38-35. It was the second special teams score for the Lions. The game started with an 82-yard kickoff return by Sincere Timpson.
“We actually went and corrected some things but on the second one, you know, one person that made a mistake one time you correct that mistake and the next time, another kid makes a mistake but that will happen when dealing with kids,” South Oak Cliff coach Jason Todd said. “But you gotta give it to them, that was great execution.”
South Oak Cliff had a chance to tie the game late but a 46-yard field goal was wide left at the buzzer. Earlier in the drive, a 42-yard touchdown run by Williams was taken off the board for holding and took away what would’ve been a possible game-winning score.
Landen Williams-Callis, ranked No. 2 in the 2027 class by 247Sports, was named the Offensive MVP with 23 carries for 101 yards and a touchdown for Randle.
Williams-Callis, a 5-star recruit, said the first thing he would do after the postgame press conference was to call and brag to his cousin about winning his first state title.
Back in 2007, his cousin Jacquizz Rodgers led Lamar Consolidated to the 4A Division I title in 2007 over a Copperas Cove squad led by Robert Griffin III. Rodgers went to Oregon State, earning All-American honors, before an eight-year career in the NFL.
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Celina vs. Kilgore: Live score, updates from Texas high school football 4A Division I championship game
Celina will have a chance to move into a tie for third for all-time UIL football champions in the Class 4A Division I game this afternoon. Celina has won eight state titles and currently sit in third place overall among UIL teams — trailing Aledo (12) and Carthage (10) Katy (9).
Carthage won state title No. 10 earlier in the day to move into second place.
Celina had to rally late to keep the undefeated season and title hopes alive last week, beating Amarillo West Plains, 43-36. RB Harrison Williams scored on a 22-yard run with 1:34 left to account for the final points. It marked the first time in the postseason that Celina hadn’t led at halftime.
Bobcats QB Bowe Bentley, who recently picked up offers from Duke and Cal, ran for 154 yards and three touchdowns in the win.
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Kilgore has won nine in a row heading into the finals. This will be the Bulldogs’ third finals game with a win in 2OT against Dallas Lincoln in 2004 and a loss to Carthage in 2013.
Isaiah Watters ran for two scores and Michigan signee Jayden Sanders also scored for Kilgore in the 31-7 win over La Vernia.
Follow along below for live updates from the Class 4A-Division I state finals between Kilgore and Celina, scheduled to kick off at 3 p.m. CT on Friday, Dec. 20, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Pregame updates
Kilgore wins the toss and defers. Celina to get the ball first.
First Quarter Updates
TOUCHDOWN CELINA! Bowe Bentley connects with Ethan Rucker for a 34-yard TD. 10:52 left in the first. Celina 7, Kilgore 0
Bowe Bentley dots up Ethan Rucker for a touchdown! Celina drives right down the field on the opening drive of the game. Bobcats lead Kilgore 7-0 barely a minute into the game. @celina_football @bowebentley @EthanRucker0 #UILState pic.twitter.com/Dcdz4NOi4B
— DFW Inside High School Sports (@ihss_dfw) December 20, 2024
TOUCHDOWN KILGORE! Isaiah Watters with a 12-yard TD run for the Bulldogs. Eddie Jimenez with PAT. Kilgore 7, Celina 7. Big plays on the drive from the legs of QB Kayson Brooks, who has 23 yards on 3 carries
Touchdown Kilgore!
Isaiah Watters is into the end zone and we’re tied at 7 here in Arlington! #UILState #txhsfb @usatodayhss pic.twitter.com/WSauUMBAfP — Randall Sweet (@RandallSweet5) December 20, 2024
TOUCHDOWN CELINA! Bentley to Rucker again — this time for 61 yards. 5:10 on the clock. PAT blocked but haven’t seen a replay to see who got it. Celina 13, Kilgore 7
Kilgore gets a 26-yard play to move to the 29-yard line of Celina. An 11-yard run by Jacory Walton Omarion and then a 15-yard late hit.
END OF 1ST QUARTER: Celina 13, Kilgore 7
Second Quarter Updates
TOUCHDOWN KILGORE! On the first play of the 2nd quarter, Brooks hits Javon Towns for a 20-yard TD on a bubble screen. The senior WR does the work by catching the ball behind the line of scrimmage and outrunning the defense. PAT is good. Kilgore has the lead for the first time today. Kilgore 14, Celina 13
FIELD GOAL CELINA! The Bobcats regain the lead. Senior Braden Johnson boots a 35-yard field goal. Celina 16, Kilgore 14
Media/TV timeout 7:53 left.
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Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson is being called to testify at a state House committee hearing Friday at noon, as ordered by a new subpoena issued this week.
But whether the condemned man will be produced in person is unclear, after the state’s attorney general’s office filed a motion late Thursday allowing the prison to disregard the subpoena pending a hearing to resolve the motion. The office also resisted in October with a similar subpoena for a hearing with state lawmakers.
The new hearing requires the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to transport Roberson from his prison north of Houston to the state Capitol in Austin.
In a statement issued Thursday, the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton said, “In addition to presenting serious security risks, the subpoena is procedurally defective and therefore invalid as it was issued in violation of the House Rules, the Texas Constitution, and other applicable laws.”
Paxton said in October that there were safety concerns with having Roberson brought before lawmakers and cited a lack of a state facility near Austin that could temporarily house him. The state had said he could testify virtually.
In response, the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence offered a compromise that its members could meet with Roberson in prison, saying they were uncomfortable with the video option, given his autism and unfamiliarity with the technology. The meeting, however, never materialized.
A Department of Criminal Justice spokesperson said Wednesday that it “doesn’t have a comment at this time” on whether it would abide by this latest subpoena.
The decision by House committee lawmakers to issue a second subpoena comes after the attorney general’s office challenged the initial one. The original subpoena was an unusual legal gambit that set off a flurry of litigation that put Roberson’s execution on hold mere hours before he was to be executed on Oct. 17. He would have been the nation’s first person to be executed for a “shaken baby” death after long maintaining his innocence. His 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, died in 2002.
The House committee members said they still want Roberson to be able to testify in his case as it relates to a 2013 “junk science” law that allows Texas inmates to potentially challenge convictions based on advances in forensic science.
“Robert’s testimony will shed important light on some of the problems with our ‘junk science writ’ process, a legal procedure Texas lawmakers expected to provide reconsideration in cases like this one,” committee chair and state Rep. Joe Moody, a Democrat, and committee member and state Rep. Jeff Leach, a Republican, said in a statement. “His perspective will be especially valuable as a person on the autism spectrum whose neurodivergence profoundly influenced both his case and his access to justice on appeal.”
Last month, the Texas Supreme Court sided with state officials that lawmakers could not use their subpoena power to effectively halt an execution, but said the committee members could still compel Roberson to testify.
The attorney general’s office has not set a new execution date.
Meanwhile, the lawmakers and Paxton have sparred publicly over Roberson’s case, with each accusing the other of “misrepresenting” details that led to his conviction in his daughter’s death and releasing their own reports in recent weeks rebutting each other’s claims.
Doctors and law enforcement had quickly concluded Nikki was killed as a result of a violent shaking episode, but Roberson’s defense says new understanding of so-called shaken baby syndrome shows that other medical conditions can be factors in a child’s death, as they believe it was in Nikki’s.
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