{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-on-the-dobbs-decision-nothing-short-of-a-massive-victory-for-life", "Sen. Cruz on the Dobbs decision: \u2018Nothing Short of a Massive Victory for Life\u2019", "2022-06-24", "2022", "2022-06", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "Ted Cruz", "C001098", "www.cruz.senate.gov", "cruz", "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization case:\n\n\u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s decision in the Dobbs case, reversing Roe v. Wade, is nothing short of a massive victory for life, and it will save the lives of millions of innocent babies. The decision reverses one of the most egregious departures from the Constitution and legal precedent the United States has ever seen, and one that has resulted in the deaths of 63 million American children.\n\n\u201cRoe was wrong the day it was decided, and it has been wrong every day since then. If you search for the word \u2018abortion\u2019 in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, you won\u2019t find it. The Court at the time acknowledged that, and yet Roe created a brand new constitutional \u2018right\u2019 out of whole cloth.\n\n\u201cAnd while the left manically argues that the Dobbs decision makes abortion illegal throughout the country, that is false. What this decision does is leave abortion policy up to the states and returns power to the American people\u2014which is exactly how questions of abortion were handled before Roe.\n\n\u201cThis is a momentous day, and yet the fight for life doesn\u2019t end with the Dobbs decision. It simply begins a new chapter. I\u2019ve been proud to stand for life in the U.S. Senate, and I will continue to do so as we navigate the path ahead.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:13:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-on-the-dobbs-decision-nothing-short-of-a-massive-victory-for-life"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9693941101431847, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}