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JD Vance on Abortion
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Try to balance interest in life against interest in autonomy
I think autonomy is really important, I also think life is really important. And what we're trying to talk about fundamentally, I think again, I'm trying to be fair to both sides here, is to balance the interest in life against the interest in autonomy.
And I think that the way to do that, at least my view, is to let the American people debate and talk about and argue about this issue and come to this decision on a state-by-state basis.
Source: Joe Rogan interview: 2024 Vice Presidential Veepstakes
, Nov 1, 2024
Democracy is messy; let voters decide in each state
JDV: Donald Trump has been very clear that on the abortion policy specifically, that we have a big country and it's diverse. And California has a different viewpoint on this than Georgia. Georgia has a different viewpoint from Arizona.
And the proper way to handle this, as messy as democracy sometimes is, is to let voters make these decisions, let the individual states make their abortion policy.
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.
Source: 2024 Vice Presidential debate: Tim Walz vs. JD Vance
, Oct 2, 2024
As pro-life as anyone, but supports abortion pills
Most GOP delegates [at the Republican Convention] are fine with abortion not taking center stage, saying they have little interest in divisive social issues that could damage the nominee. While abortion-rights groups stage press conferences outside the
convention and attempt to use GOP vice presidential nomineeJ.D. Vance's past statements to bring abortion back into the political spotlight, the GOP is choosing not to engage.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.
Source: Politico.com on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 18, 2024
Preserve access to Mifepristone medication abortion
U.S. Sen. JD Vance said he supports last month's U.S. Supreme Court decision that preserves access to medication abortion -- a reversal on Vance's platform when he ran for the Senate as an uncompromising abortion opponent.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.
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 11, 2024
People don't want blanket abortion bans; exceptions ok
[In the 2022 Republican Senate primary, Vance said], he wanted to end abortion once and for all. And he defended the lack of exceptions for rape and incest. Then when he won the GOP nomination later that year, he was endorsed by Ohio Right to
Life and ended debate with his Democratic challenger, Tim Ryan. He said he supported reasonable exceptions without being specific about those exceptions. So a slight softening there.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?
Source: Cleveland Plain-Dealer on 2024 Veepstakes
, Jul 11, 2024
ONLY exception is strict life of the mother exception
Q: Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).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.
Source: American Family Association 2022 iVoterGuide
, Nov 1, 2022
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
Abortion rights should be regulated by state legislatures
[Democratic opponent Rep. Tim] Ryan supports codifying the standard set by Roe v. Wade, which the Supreme Court overturned. Vance contends the issue should be regulated by state legislatures but said he would support a "minimum national standard" for
how far into a pregnancy abortions should be permitted.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."
Source: The Columbus Dispatch on 2022 Ohio Senate race
, Oct 10, 2022
Eliminating abortion makes society pro-child, pro-family
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.
Eliminating abortion is first and foremost about protecting the unborn, but it's also about making our society more pro-child and pro-family.
Source: 2021 OH Senate campaign website JDVance.com
, Oct 3, 2021
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