{"id":71498,"date":"2015-08-20T12:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T16:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=71498"},"modified":"2015-08-20T13:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T17:49:30","slug":"ted-cruz-denounces-horrific-actions-latest-planned-parenthood-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ted-cruz-denounces-horrific-actions-latest-planned-parenthood-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz denounces &#8220;horrific&#8221; actions in latest Planned Parenthood video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On Wednesday, Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/634175024736301056\">blasted<\/a> Planned Parenthood over the <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-brain-harvested-from-intact-baby-with-a-beating-heart-says-eyewitness-inside-planned-parenthood\/\">latest Center for Medical Progress investigative video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on Simon Conway\u2019s radio show, Cruz called the videos, \u201chorrific,\u201d noting that \u201ceach video is worse than the one that preceded it,\u201d and expressing hope that \u201cespecially\u201d pro-choice Americans watch the videos \u201cand just ask yourself, \u2018are these my values?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He went on to discuss the contents of the latest video, \u201cwhere you see them describing a child that <em>has<\/em> been born, whose heart is still beating, and yet nonetheless the doctor cuts the child\u2019s face open to harvest the brain, because from their perspective this is a profit-making endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz then lamented that \u201cunder President Obama, the Department of Justice has become so partisan and lawless that nobody believes there will even be an investigation,\u201d despite the fact that \u201cthese videos show senior officials admitting on tape to a pattern of multiple felonies. Selling the body parts of unborn children for a profit carries a ten-year prison sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0went on to reiterate pledges he has made <a href=\"\/news\/cruz-campaign-airs-tv-ad-ted-cruz-will-prosecute-and-defund-planned-parenthood\/\">in television ads<\/a> and <a href=\"\/news\/powerful-pro-life-speeches-first-gop-presidential-debate\/\">during the first primary debate<\/a> that \u201cif I\u2019m elected president, on the very first day in office, I will instruct the Department of Justice to open an investigation into Planned Parenthood and to prosecute any and all criminal conduct by that organization and by its officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Live Action News has previously reported that Cruz has also <a href=\"\/news\/ted-cruz-planned-parenthood-criminal-enterprise-must-defunded\/\">declared<\/a> Planned Parenthood a \u201cnational criminal enterprise\u201d and said he <a href=\"\/news\/cruz-trump-shut-government-defund-planned-parenthood\/\">would be willing<\/a> to withhold taxpayer dollars from the abortion giant, even if the Obama Administration would <a href=\"\/news\/no-pro-lifers-wont-shut-down-the-government-over-abortion\/\">instigate a government shutdown<\/a> in response by refusing to sign a budget without Planned Parenthood funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Texas Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz blasted Planned Parenthood over the latest Center for Medical Progress investigative video. 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