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JD Vance on Abortion |
TW: What we did was restore Roe v. Wade. We made sure that we put women in charge of their health care. Their Project 2025 is going to have a registry of pregnancies. It's going to make it more difficult, if not impossible to get contraception and limit access, if not eliminate access to infertility treatments. That's nobody else's business. In Minnesota, we are ranked first in health care for a reason. We trust women. We trust doctors.
Vance, who last year described himself "as pro life as anyone," didn't mention, or allude to, abortion in his [GOP Convention] address.
Some social conservatives were hopeful that Vance, who has in the past equated abortion to murder, would nudge Trump to the right on the issue. Instead, Vance has alarmed anti-abortion advocates by voicing support for mifepristone, the widely used abortion pill. They fear that Vance's brand of "New Right'' conservatism, which they hoped would give them a seat again at the GOP table, is falling prey to electoral calculations.
Vance in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press [this week] is softening his former anti -abortion stance in the wake of that proposed GOP platform that doesn't call for a national abortion ban. On Meet the Press, he said he supported the Supreme Court decision to allow Mifepristone access. This is one of the abortion drugs and he says it should be legally accessible.
He says, "Donald Trump supports it and so do I." But Donald Trump didn't use to support it, and back in 2022, when Vance was running for Senate, he was an abortion hardliner. Vance said he was 100% pro -life. He wanted to end abortion once and for all.
In November of 2023, after Ohio approved the abortion rights amendment by 57%, he says we must accept that people don't want blanket abortion bans, and he says that the Republican party has lost the voters' trust.
If he's doing this because he did learn from the vote that he's not in line with Ohio, then I would give credit to him. Is he doing the right thing by absorbing the sentiment of Ohio, who he represents and saying, "okay, I better represent my state because that's what they want." Or is he a rank opportunist that's just sucking up to Trump?
A: Strongly Agree
Q: I support 'aid in dying' laws which legalize assisted suicide and euthanasia.
A: Strongly Disagree
Q: Under what circumstances should abortion be allowed?
A: The ONLY exception that I would favor is a strict life of the mother exception.
Vance did not directly say "rape is inconvenient." But when Vance was asked whether laws should allow people to get abortions if they were victims of rape or incest, he suggested that society should not view a pregnancy or birth resulting from rape or incest as "inconvenient." Vance added, "What kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded?"
Vance has previously said he supports abortion when it's necessary to save the pregnant person's life, but he's opposed to exceptions for cases of rape or incest. When asked about the case of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who got an abortion in Indiana, he said she should've been able to get an abortion if she and her family chose to do so. Then he pivoted to the man accused of raping and impregnating the girl, who is believed to be an undocumented immigrant. "That poor girl was raped by an illegal alien, somebody who should've never been in this state in the first place...if you had done your job, she would've never been raped in the first place," Vance told Ryan. "Do your job on border security."