Sen. JD Vance said during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate that Republicans needed to do a better job talking about abortion, as many women felt they had no other choice.
She said she knew many women who chose abortion in her community, including an unnamed friend.
“I grew up in a working-class family in a neighborhood where I knew many young women who had unplanned pregnancies and decided to terminate those pregnancies because they felt they had no other options,” Vance said.
“One of them is really very dear to me, I know she’s watching tonight and I love you.”
Vance kept details of the woman he was talking about vague, but said she was in “an abusive relationship.”
JD Vance spoke about a woman he knew who was “very dear” to him who had an abortion
He supported the idea of states making abortion laws, but urged the Republican Party to do a better job speaking out on the issue.
“We have to do a much better job of regaining the trust of the American people on this issue where, frankly, they just don’t trust us,” he said.
She called on Republicans to support fertility treatments and make it easier for women to afford to have children.
‘I want us to make it easier for mothers to afford to have babies. I wanted to make it easier for young families to afford a home, so they could afford a place to raise their family.’
Gov. Tim Walz brought up the case of 28-year-old Amber Thurman, who died from an infection after using abortion pills to end her pregnancy.
Vance agreed that Thurman’s death was a tragedy.
Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz debate abortion during vice presidential debate
‘Amber Thurman should still be alive. “There are a lot of people who should still be alive,” Vance said.
He described Minnesota’s permissive abortion law as “barbaric,” claiming that the law signed by Walz allowed doctors to end the life of a child who survived an abortion.
“As I read the Minnesota law that you signed, it says that the doctor who presides over an abortion in which the baby survives, the doctor has no obligation to provide life-saving care for a baby who survives a failed abortion in the last term,” he said. saying. “That is fundamentally barbaric.”
Walz protested that it should be the right of a woman and her doctors to make the decision about her pregnancy.
‘These are decisions that women must make. And the doctors who know the most,’ he stated.
“I asked a question and you gave me a slogan,” Vance responded.