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President Donald Trump has picked Sen. JD Vance to be his running mate — and, in doing so, has chosen someone who believes people simply need to reframe the way they think about forcing women to stay pregnant because it’s “about the baby.”with Spectrum News, Vance was asked if he believes a woman should be forced to carry a baby to term after she has been a victim of rape or incest.
on SBA Pro-Life America’s pro-life scorecard of lawmakers. In the same 2021 Spectrum interview, Vance said he doesn’t think abortion laws should allow for exceptions for rape and incest because, he said, “two wrongs don’t make a right.” But for all the extreme anti-abortion rhetoric being thrown around by Republicans as election season picks up, Vance’s 2021 comments still manage to stand out, even if they’ve gotten a bit buried.
Vance is simply saying the quiet part out loud — that women are non-entities — that plenty of other anti-abortion Republicans agree with but areRepublican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said in 2021 that people simply need to reframe how we think about forcing women to stay pregnant.
Vance’s particularly hardline opposition to abortion is definitely not the message the Trump campaign wants to be associated with right now, as itspelled out his views on 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.
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