Senator JD Vance (R-OH) is currently under fire for inciting terror attacks against legal immigrants in Ohio by making unbelievable claims about eating cats and dogs, but he also continues to lie about the Trump/Vance Republican presidential ticket. on the national abortion ban.
Speaking to Meet the Press, Vance refused to say that Donald Trump would veto a national abortion ban if it came to his desk if he were to win the 2024 election, saying that the issue is a hypothetical that has not been discussed and “I’ve learned how to speak for the president.”
WATCH: On #MTP in August, @JDVance said Donald Trump will veto the national abortion ban.
But on the debate stage, Trump said he “shouldn’t” and that he and Vance haven’t discussed it.
Vance now tells MTP, “I’ve learned how to speak for the president.” pic.twitter.com/eV6wNuEmHI
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) September 15, 2024
Vance was asked about speaking in August Meet Press that is Donald Trump would veto the federal abortion ban, while on the debate stage Trump said he “shouldn’t” and that he and Vance didn’t discuss it.
WELKER: Senator Vance, just to clarify once and for all, if Donald Trump were to be elected, if the federal abortion ban were to come across his desk, would he veto it?
VANCE: Christian, as you can see President, we haven’t discussed this. We still haven’t discussed it, because it’s not realistic. Kristen, I think this is the point that was made during the debate, it was incredibly clear that I do not support the national ban on abortion.
They want abortion policy to be made by the state, because they think, look, Alabama is going to make a different decision than California, and that’s fine…So I think President Trump has made it clear a national abortion ban is off the table. They will not support it. He won’t, he won’t sign. And I, actually, Christian, it’s kind of hypothetical ridiculous… The point is hypothetical, and not hypothetical that has a chance to actually cross the table.
WELKER: I take the point, but, but just to put this fine point, you’re saying you don’t support it. So he will veto?
VANCE: I think I’ve learned how to talk to presidents before me and they talk about issues.
If the Trump/Vance ticket has a real abortion policy, why don’t they tell the voters what it is? If he doesn’t support a national abortion ban, why not just say it and commit to vetoing the legislation? It’s a major issue in the 2024 election, and of course he has a position, but Vance said he hasn’t discussed it yet.
Trump has repeatedly taken credit for overturning Roe.
The problem for Trump is that in those measures of the state where voters actually weigh more than Republican politicians, voters consistently support abortion rights. Even some Republican voters voted against the anti-abortion Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections and in November 2023, the red state of Ohio, where JD Vance is a Senator, passed the voters approving a constitutional amendment to protect access to abortion and other reproductive health care. .
One of the troubling issues with demanding that individual states decide whether women and girls have human rights is that Republicans are also suing individuals and passing laws to ban women and girls from traveling to countries where abortion is legal.
JD Vance says he wants abortion to be illegal nationally and even wants to prevent women from traveling for abortions. In 2022, Vance argued that the fact that abortion-seekers would travel from conservative states to liberal states required federal action. “I always want abortion to be illegal nationally,” Vance said.
Listen here where JD Vance says the opposite of what MTP said about California versus Ohio:
Undiscovered audio: JD Vance calls for “federal response” to prevent women in red states from traveling to other states for abortions pic.twitter.com/t9YAbFuoPc
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) July 26, 2024
In a May 2024 interview with KDKA News Trump said he was looking at restrictions on contraception but then backtracked after the interview posted:
Trump was asked, “Do you support restrictions on people’s contraceptive rights?”
“We’re looking at it and I’m going to have a policy on that,” Trump replied, according to a video of the interview that was briefly posted online before it aired, then was taken down.
Trump said in the interview that contraception bans could be implemented on a state-by-state basis. Contraception, like abortion, is often used to treat medical problems for women and girls, including heavy menstrual bleeding. So the idea that it could be banned in some countries is a concern.
This is what Trump said: He often said two contradictory things to appeal to two different constituencies, sometimes even in the same sentence. If we only look at what Trump has actually done as president, we see that the three Supreme Court judges who chose to play a big part in overturning Roe v Wade, and Trump brags about this fact a lot.
Additionally, the conservative policy playbook Project 2025 calls for reviving the Comstock Act of 1873 to target medication abortions, according to Leah Litman, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Donald Trump has tried to get rid of the Heritage Foundation’s playbook, but he was also caught on camera praising Heritage and at least 140 people working in the Trump administration had a hand in writing it, according to a CNN analysis.
Trump has repeatedly tried to appease all voters and ended up angering evangelicals who supported him in part because he overturned Roe. So now two Republicans on the ticket are refusing to tell voters exactly where they stand on abortion, an issue that can be life or death for pregnant women.
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