'Mind your own uterus': Ted Cruz destroyed for ‘misogynistic lie’ that pregnancy is not life-threatening
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz is under fire for claiming that pregnancy is not life threatening. The Texas hard-core conservative Republican is promoting his attempt, along with 20 other GOP senators (far less than half of his caucus), to get the FDA to label a widely-accepted pill safely prescribed by doctors for decades to assist in inducing an abortion, as “dangerous.” The World Health Organization (WHO) includes Mifeprex, also known as RU-486, on its list of Essential Medicines.
“Pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness, and the abortion pill does not cure or prevent any disease,” Cruz tweeted. “Make no mistake, Mifeprex is a dangerous pill. That’s why 20 of my Republican colleagues and I are urging @US_FDA to classify it as such.”
The CDC says “about 700 women die each year in the United States as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications.”
Many responded, including many women. Some shared their experiences with pregnancy, some shared statistics showing just how dangerous pregnancy can be, some noted that Black women die from pregnancy at exponentially higher rates than white women, and some noted that Viagra is more deadly than RU-486.
Take a look:
Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes. https://t.co/0QQsJCYGK3— Sabrina Singh (@Sabrina Singh) 1599140105
Lies. Mifeprex is a safe medicine, safer than many commonly used medicines such as penicillin. https://t.co/3xBRG8h28G— Dr. Seema Yasmin is on a media literacy mission (@Dr. Seema Yasmin is on a media literacy mission) 1599107849
Per the CDC, sometimes pregnancy can cause life threatening illnesses. The link below explains just a small number… https://t.co/9iW14NrVXH— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi Buchman) 1599127382
1. Mifeprex blocks the hormone needed for a pregnancy to continue 2. Abortion is legal 3. Women die every day givi… https://t.co/uqnY7p6Go1— Amee Vanderpool (@Amee Vanderpool) 1599134457
This is a dangerous, misogynistic lie. Pregnancy can, and often is, a life-threatening or even life-ending medical… https://t.co/tgHWWzlmdi— Shannon in Ohio 4 (@Shannon in Ohio 4) 1599128609
Death from Mifeprex 2000-2018: 24 Deaths from Viagra 1998-2007: 1,824 Shut the fuck up, Ted. Also, maybe tell th… https://t.co/meKhgtRe8N— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@Holly Figueroa O'Reilly) 1599133747
Ted Cruz has never been pregnant and clearly knows nothing about maternal mortality rates in the US or in Texas. Pe… https://t.co/tl9sog8riX— Ilyse Hogue is @ilyseh on mastodon (@Ilyse Hogue is @ilyseh on mastodon) 1599141750
"Pregnancy is not a life-threatening illness" Please tell that to my OBGYN who had to have me rushed to the operat… https://t.co/2795PWBv3U— Just a 👷♀️ in the 🌍. (@Just a 👷♀️ in the 🌍.) 1599139799
Childbirth is fourteen times more dangerous than abortion and pregnancy is indeed life threatening for millions of… https://t.co/DsfhsvXBwV— Laura Chapin (@Laura Chapin) 1599107950
This is why pregnancy is trending on Twitter today. Here's the risk of death for both abortion vs pregnancy: -->… https://t.co/INIIVLL2ks— Kate Smith (@Kate Smith) 1599141894
This right here is why you should have voted for Hillary Clinton. This man never heard of deaths during pregnancy,… https://t.co/DyhCamxTj2— Victoria Brownworth #NotLeavingThisBirdApp (@Victoria Brownworth #NotLeavingThisBirdApp) 1599135757
Women die during pregnancy all the time. In fact, three of your female colleagues, Gillibrand, Harris and Warren, h… https://t.co/txPa96TZNo— Victoria Brownworth #NotLeavingThisBirdApp (@Victoria Brownworth #NotLeavingThisBirdApp) 1599135614
I'm pretty over people who have never had the possibility of being pregnant having bullshit opinions that can becom… https://t.co/xYjJlI6KqQ— Tiffany Bond (@Tiffany Bond) 1599130785
Women's rights are on the ballot, per the usual. https://t.co/VwUgzSBs5C— Jennifer Hayden (@Jennifer Hayden) 1599140125
