Biden’s campaign team attacks JD Vance’s stance on abortion

Hours after former President Donald Trump announced he would Senator-elect from Ohio, JD Vance as his running mate, the Biden team tried to draw attention to the Senator’s attitude At abortionand called him an “extreme anti-abortion politician” in a press conference.

“He is a proud opponent of abortion freedom and wants to set women back decades. He supports a nationwide ban on abortion, criticizes exceptions for survivors of rape and incest, says ‘two wrongs do not make a right’ and calls these circumstances ‘uncomfortable,'” said Jen O’Malley Dillon, President Biden’s campaign manager.

O’Malley Dillon appeared to be referring to a radio interview Vance gave to Spectrum News 1 in Columbus, Ohio in 2021.

“I I think two wrongs do not make a right. At the end of the day, this is about an unborn baby,” he said. “It’s not about whether a woman should be forced to carry a child to term. It’s about whether a child should be allowed to live.”

Moderator Curtis Jackson asked Vance whether there should be exceptions for rape or incest.

“I believe two wrongs do not make a right. At the end of the day, this is about an unborn baby,” Vance said. “What kind of society do we want to have? A society that sees unborn babies as an inconvenience that needs to be gotten rid of?”

The campaign also released a new ad that mentions Vance by name for the first time. In the ad, a young Kentucky woman, Hadley Duvall, talks about being raped and impregnated by her stepfather at age 12. Duvall said when she found out she was pregnant, she knew she had options.

“If Roe v. Wade had been overturned, I wouldn’t have heard this, and then it occurred to me that there’s someone who isn’t hearing this now,” she said, adding, “Trump and JD Vance don’t care about women. In this situation, they don’t care about girls.”

The campaign will invest seven figures to produce programs including the WNBA All-Star Game, CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” “The Bachelor” and more.

Vice President Kamala Harris also criticized Vance for IVF in her first campaign appearance since announcing his nomination as vice presidential candidate.

“You see, this is a man who is serving in the United States Senate Blockage protection for IVFthis is a person who supports a national ban on abortion by any means necessary,” Harris said Wednesday at a campaign rally in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Abortion was a Winning topic for the Democrats in the past elections since Case of Roeand with several Voting measures If elections are held in several states in November, this could have a significant impact on the presidential election.

It was one of the main themes of Biden’s re-election campaign. His campaign often blames former President Donald Trump for restrictive nationwide abortion bans because he nominated the Supreme Court justices who overturned federal abortion rights.

Vance, whose meteoric rise into politics began after his memoirs “Hillbilly Elegy” became a best-seller and was also made into a movie. He has said he is 100% pro-life and ending access to abortion was one of the issues highlighted on his campaign website. He has expressed support for a national abortion ban and in an audio clip shared by the Biden campaign on X, he can be heard comparing slavery and abortion. However, the clip did not include the full quote.

“Abortion and slavery are comparable. Although those who suffer from it obviously suffer the most, slavery, in my opinion, has a morally distorting effect on society as a whole,” Vance said in an interview in 2022.

In a 2022 debate with his Senate opponent, former Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, Vance said he has always believed in reasonable exceptions to abortion.

The Ohio native was also a vocal opponent of the abortion rights vote in the Buckeye State. Error 1last November. When the bill passed, Vance called it a “punch in the gut” and called for voters to be given the “choice between abortion restrictions in very early pregnancy with exceptions or the pro-choice position, with the pro-life view having a real chance.”

Vance, for his part, has accused Democrats of twisting his words on abortion, and after securing the second spot on the Republican presidential ticket, he adjusted his views on abortion to match Trump’s recent public statements.

“I’m pro-life. I want to save as many babies as possible,” he told CBS News.Face the nation” in May. “And of course I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say that late-term abortions shouldn’t happen, with reasonable exceptions. But I think Trump’s approach here is to try to settle a very difficult issue and actually empower the American people to decide for themselves.”

As the Republican candidate for vice president, Vance shares Trump’s views.

“In my view, Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and his views on abortion will be the views that dominate his party and drive that party forward,” Vance said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, his first as vice presidential candidate. “You have to believe in reasonable exceptions, because that’s where the American people stand, and you have to let the individual states make that decision. Alabama will make a different decision in California.”

Vance did not respond to a request for comment. The Trump campaign team has also not commented.