Super PAC Supporting Anti-Abortion Rep. Henry Cuellar Suggests He'll Protect Abortion Rights
Huff PostRep. Henry Cuellar is the last Democrat in the House opposed to abortion rights. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press A centrist super PAC backing Rep. Henry Cuellar, a conservative Democrat representing Texas’ 28th Congressional District, is suggesting in a new television The group, Mainstream Democrats, has spent over $177,000 to bolster Cuellar ahead of a May 24 Democratic primary runoff election for his South Texas seat against progressive attorney Jessica Cisneros. “With women’s rights under attack from extremists, Democrat Henry Cuellar has made it clear that he opposes a ban on abortion,” the narrator says in the ad. “Let’s send Henry Cuellar back to Congress so he can keep standing up for us.” The ad cites as its source an Associated Press article reprinted by U.S. News and World Report from early May reporting that Cuellar supports allowing abortions in cases of rape, incest, or a threat to the life of the mother. Technically, this could mean that Cuellar does not support a “ban” on abortion in all cases, but it fails to note that he is the only abortion rights opponent in the House Democratic Caucus.
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