Monica De La Cruz Is Trying To Deceive Voters About Her Anti-Abortion Record

New reporting from Noticias Telemundo reveals that Monica De La Cruz is trying to deceive voters about her extremist positions. Noticias Telemundo reveals that since Roe v. Wade was overturned, Monica De La Cruz has deleted parts of her website, and has spoken less and less about her unpopular anti abortion positions.

DCCC Spokesperson José Muñoz:
"It's pretty simple, by trying to hide her extreme anti-abortion policies, Monica De La Cruz wants to deceive the voters of South Texas. The reality is that since she was elected her goal has been to take away women's rights. Her extremist and anti-freedom position is going to be rejected in November."

Noticias Telemundo: To get to Congress, these Republican Latinas from Texas promoted their anti-abortion stance. Not so much anymore
Juliana Jiménez J. | July 11. 2024

• When the right to terminate a pregnancy, recognized as a constitutional right in Roe v. Wade was struck down by the Supreme Court in June 2022, some expected Latinos, who tend to be more conservative and religious than the national average, to celebrate.

• But polls since then have shown that Latinos generally do support abortion rights.

• The polls we reviewed show that a majority of Hispanics believe abortion should be legal in almost all cases.

• That's why Democratic candidates and strategists hope that restoring abortion rights will motivate Latinos to vote for their party up and down the ballot.

• And just as Democrats have sought to attract voters with abortion, Republicans are seeking not to repel them by trying to put the issue behind them, at least in the campaign, political analysts explain, since "abortion bans have become a politically toxic issue for Republicans in elections across the country," explained The New York Times in January of this year.

• Monica De La Cruz has been considered a "rising star" for the party since flipping Texas's border District 15 from Democratic to Republican control for the first time in the 2022 midterms - the first woman and first Republican to represent that district.

• She delivered the Spanish-language Republican response to Biden's State of the Union address in March, in which he focused on the economy, inflation and the border. She made no mention of abortion or reproductive rights.

• Four years ago, and up until two years ago, however, this was a central theme of her campaign. Since 2022, the congresswoman has gradually removed references to abortion from her website: she went from highlighting it as a top priority in 2020 to not mentioning it at all in 2024.

• In March 2020, and for the November 2020 election, the section on opposition to abortion was the first issue listed on his campaign website. The issue page contained a section titled "Family Values ​​and Cherishing Life," where he stated that he believed human life began at conception (although De La Cruz says he supports in vitro fertilization, or IVF, her stance that life begins at fertilization contradicts this, as doctors say it is nearly impossible to avoid destroying some embryos in the process).

• Then, by October 2021, the section explaining his opposition to abortion was no longer the first topic, but the sixth.

• By February 2022 , this section was no longer listed on her website, but in a section called "Constitutional Values," it did pledge to protect the "Right to Life" (right-wing religious groups call themselves "pro-life" to say they are against the right to choose whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term, but their opponents point out that they are not in favor of women's lives, since denying them this right can put their lives at risk, as happens, for example, with ectopic pregnancies).

• By 2024, her website will no longer include any reference to abortion.

• Noticias Telemundo attempted to contact De La Cruz by phone and email, and a House staff member responded that "we decline the request for an interview" with the congresswoman. The Republican National Committee was also asked for comment, but has not yet responded.

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