President Donald Trump has picked Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) to be his operating mate — and, in doing so, has chosen somebody who believes folks merely must reframe the way in which they give thought to forcing girls to remain pregnant as a result of it’s “about the baby.”
In a 2021 interview with Spectrum Information, Vance was requested if he believes a lady needs to be compelled to hold a child to time period after she has been a sufferer of rape or incest.
The Ohio Republican prompt the framing of the query was flawed.
“It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society,” Vance mentioned. “The question really, to me, is about the baby.”
The vice presidential nominee hasn’t been shy about his robust anti-abortion views. He has an A+ score on SBA Professional-Life America’s pro-life scorecard of lawmakers. In the identical 2021 Spectrum interview, Vance mentioned he doesn’t assume abortion legal guidelines ought to permit for exceptions for rape and incest as a result of, he mentioned, “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
However for all the intense anti-abortion rhetoric being thrown round by Republicans as election season picks up, Vance’s 2021 feedback nonetheless handle to face out, even when they’ve gotten a bit buried.
Vance is just saying the quiet half out loud — that girls are non-entities — that loads of different anti-abortion Republicans agree with however are delicately making an attempt to bounce round.
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Abortion rights has been a driving force in elections all over the country ever since the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. Voters have consistently turned out in droves for Democrats’ pro-choice message, and President Joe Biden is hoping to channel people’s anger and fear over GOP attacks on abortion rights into votes in November. He has vowed to restore Roe v. Wade in a second term, and regularly touts his support for women’s bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.
Vance’s particularly hardline opposition to abortion is definitely not the message the Trump campaign wants to be associated with right now, as it tries to soften its tone on abortion rights to win over votes from suburban women.
As recently as Monday evening, Vance’s Senate website spelled out his views on abortion under the all-caps title, “END ABORTION.”
“I am 100 percent pro-life, and believe that abortion has turned our society into a place where we see children as an inconvenience to be thrown away rather than a blessing to be nurtured,” read this section on Vance’s website.
By Tuesday afternoon, the abortion language was gone from Vance’s website.
A Trump campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A Senate spokesperson for Vance also did not respond to a request for comment.
