Ted Cruz calls pastors for fight against Planned Parenthood
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz has invited 100,000 pastors to participate in a conference held Tuesday, which talked about how to defund Planned Parenthood.
According to the Christian Broadcasting Network, Cruz's email to the thousands of pastors stated how he denounced "Planned Parenthood's barbaric practices of harvesting the body parts of innocent babies and selling them to the highest bidder."
While Cruz is seen by some voters and election critics to be a tad farther behind the race, the Texas lawmaker continues to step on high gear this week as he pushes for a 50-state campaign that looks toward ending taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion service provider.
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Published in full by CBN, the email said, "As the son of a pastor, I know you bear a high and holy calling on your lives. I am urging you to confront this evil in our nation by praying and preaching with an unbridled passion until funding for Planned Parenthood ends, and this barbaric practice is purged from the land."
The plan is aimed at two weeks of encouraging churchgoers to pressure their elected representatives to defund Planned Parenthood.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Senate has failed to push for a Republican-sponsored bill that would have canceled more than $500 million in funds that the women's health organization receives.
Cruz is just one of the many advocates who has publicly expressed angst over the selling of aborted baby parts in several Planned Parenthood clinics, as revealed by the Center for Medical Progress in a series of undercover videos.
The senator is now faced with fierce competition for the social conservative vote, and experts say his efforts against Planned Parenthood could put him outside the box of candidates like Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and business mogul Donald Trump, who is the current GOP frontrunner.
