JD Vance in 2022 FactCheck


On Abortion: Unborn babies are not inconveniences to be discarded

[FactCheck: Tim Ryan claimed that] Vance "called rape inconvenient." [Is that true?]

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?"

Source: PolitiFact.com Fact-Check on 2022 Ohio Senate race Oct 17, 2022

On Drugs: Close the border to end drug trafficking zone

Vance: Speaking of fentanyl coming into the United States, "you've got to close the border. You've got to finish the wall and you've got to make it so that these drug cartels are not able to use the U.S. southern border as a drug trafficking zone."

[Is that true that drugs come across the southern border?] Most of the fentanyl seized by U.S. border authorities is seized at official checkpoints, not in between ports of entry. Drug policy and immigration experts have told PolitiFact that physical barriers at the border probably won't stop drugs from coming in, because drug cartels find ways around them--including through tunnels and under legal goods in trailer trucks that seek to cross the border legally. Annual fentanyl seizures at the southwest border have been steadily increasing since at least fiscal year 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration has reported.

Source: PolitiFact.com Fact-Check on 2022 Ohio Senate race Oct 17, 2022

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