Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance revealed that an unnamed person “very dear” to him previously got an abortion during a discussion about the politically fraught issue at the VP debate.
“I grew up in a working-class family in a neighborhood where I knew a lot of young women who had unplanned pregnancies and decided to terminate those pregnancies because they feel like they didn’t have any 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 did not specify who he was talking about, though he added that she was in “an abusive relationship.” He also stressed his position is that states should decide abortion policy rather than the federal government.
“We’ve got to do so much better of a job at [winning] the American people’s trust back on this issue where they frankly, just don’t trust us,” Vance said of the Republican Party.
Vance later slammed Walz’s abortion laws in Minnesota, which he said allowed doctors to let babies who are born alive during botched abortions die.
“As I read the Minnesota law that you signed,” Vance told Walz, “it says the doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide life-saving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion.”
“That is fundamentally barbaric,” he declared. “Do you want to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions against their will? Because Kamala Harris has supported suing Catholic nuns to violate their freedom of conscience.”
Walz protested that was “not true.”
“These are womens’ decisions to make,” the governor added. “”And the physicians who know best.”
“I asked a question, and you gave me a slogan,” Vance responded.
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