Reproductive Freedom for All, a national pro-abortion organization, sharply criticized Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton following his victory over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff, calling him one of the most “extreme and aggressive anti-abortion politicians in the country.”
Paxton, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, secured the GOP nomination in the May 26 runoff. He will face Democrat James Talarico in the November general election.
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In a May 27 press release, Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju said Paxton has “built his career on controlling people’s lives, bodies, and futures,” pointing to his pro-life policy record.
Timmaraju accused him of enforcing “one of the cruelest abortion bans in the country” as Texas attorney general and fighting to “block emergency abortion care.”
Texas’s abortion law, enacted after the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, bans nearly all abortions, allowing them only in narrow cases where the mother’s life or major bodily function is at serious risk.
“Now, he wants to bring that same extremism to the U.S. Senate,” Timmaraju said. “Texans deserve leaders who will protect their freedom — not politicians like Paxton who will stop at nothing to ban abortion and put people’s health and lives at risk.”
The group also criticized Paxton’s efforts to restrict the distribution of mail-order abortion drugs by “targeting providers and patients across state lines.”
The statement comes as several pro-life advocates and officials in several states speak out against the mail distribution of abortion pills, which they argue are being illegally shipped into states with near-total abortion bans.
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“As the country approaches the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs decision and the 2026 midterm elections,” Reproductive Freedom for All said in the release, “abortion remains a defining issue for voters who are seeing exactly how dangerous and far-reaching these bans are.”
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