J.D. Vance makes stunning abortion admission about a woman who was ‘very dear’ to him
Senator J.D. Vance said during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate that Republicans needed to do a better job of talking about abortion because many women did not feel they had a choice.
He said he knew many women in his community who chose abortion, including an unnamed friend.
“I grew up in a working-class family in a neighborhood where I knew many young women who had had unplanned pregnancies and decided to end those pregnancies because they felt like they had no other options,” Vance said.
“One of them is actually very dear to me, and I know she’s watching tonight, and I love you.”
Vance kept details of the woman he was talking about vague, but said she was in “an abusive relationship.”
JD Vance spoke about a woman he knew and who was “very dear” to him who had an abortion
He supported the idea of states enacting abortion laws, but urged the Republican Party to do a better job of talking about the issue.
“We have to do so much better to earn the trust of the American people on this issue, when quite frankly they just don’t trust us,” he said.
He called on Republicans to support fertility treatments and make it easier for women to have children.
‘I want us to make it easier for mothers to have children. I wanted to make it easier for young families to afford a home so they can afford a place to raise that family.”
Gov. Tim Walz raised the case of 28-year-old Amber Thurman, who died of an infection after using abortion pills to end her pregnancy.
Vance agreed that Thurman’s death was a tragedy.
Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz debate abortion during the vice presidential debate
“Amber Thurman should still be alive. There are a lot of people who should still be alive,” Vance said.
He described Minnesota’s permissive abortion law as “barbaric,” claiming the law signed by Walz allowed doctors to end the life of a child who survived an abortion.
“When I read the Minnesota law that you signed, it says that the physician who directs an abortion in which the baby survives is not required to provide life-saving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion ,’ he said. said. ‘That is fundamentally barbaric.’
Walz protested that it should be the right of the woman and her doctors to make the decision about her pregnancy.
“These are women’s decisions. And the doctors who know best,” he said.
“I asked a question and you gave me a slogan,” Vance responded.