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On Sunday, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz defended<\/a> the pro-life movement against the charge that it inadvertently encouraged last week’s shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n

“It was a multiple murder of what appears to be a deranged individual,” Cruz said. “And it was horrific, it was evil, and we\u2019ll find out more out about the facts, but I don\u2019t think we should jump to conclusions.\u201d He argued there was “very little evidence” to support the media’s desire “to blame him on the pro-life movement.”<\/p>\n

A reporter responded by telling Cruz that shooter Robert Lewis Dear allegedly told police<\/a>, “no more baby parts,” to which the 2016 hopeful answered, “It\u2019s also been reported that he was registered as an independent and a woman and a transgendered leftist activist,” a reference to initial reports<\/a> that Dear was registered to vote as a woman.<\/p>\n

“If that\u2019s what he is,” Cruz concluded, “I don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair to blame on the rhetoric on the left.”<\/p>\n

Ted Cruz has been one of the GOP primary field’s most passionate voices for defunding Planned Parenthood. He has called<\/a> the abortion giant a “national criminal enterprise” which should be investigated and prosecuted, and advocates<\/a> withholding its federal subsidies even if President Barack Obama’s refusal to sign a continuing resolution without Planned Parenthood leads to a government shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz defended the pro-life movement against the charge that it inadvertently encouraged last week’s shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood. “It was a multiple murder of what appears to be a deranged individual,” Cruz said. “And it was horrific, it was evil, and we\u2019ll find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":70603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[3581,19,3858,190,6400,131,14,615,6403,6418,3908],"yoast_head":"\nCruz defends pro-life movement from charge it encouraged Colorado shooting - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\""It was horrific, it was evil, and we\u2019ll find out more out about the facts, but I don\u2019t think we should jump to conclusions.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cruz-defends-pro-life-movement-charge-encouraged-colorado-shooting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cruz defends pro-life movement from charge it encouraged Colorado shooting - 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