{"id":1037417,"date":"2024-07-22T17:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1037417"},"modified":"2024-07-22T17:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:33:31","slug":"jd-vance-is-campaigning-today-on-an-anti-choice-maga-agenda-virginians-overwhelmingly-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-is-campaigning-today-on-an-anti-choice-maga-agenda-virginians-overwhelmingly-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance is Campaigning Today on an Anti-Choice MAGA Agenda Virginians Overwhelmingly Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ahead of anti-choice extremist JD Vance\u2019s rally in Virginia today, <\/em>DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVirginians rejected MAGA Republicans\u2019 attacks on reproductive freedoms last year and have zero interest in JD Vance\u2019s record of saying he wants abortion to be \u2018illegal nationally,\u2019 suggesting he was open to banning women from traveling out of state to get reproductive care, and attacking exceptions for survivors of rape and incest by saying \u2018two wrongs don\u2019t make a right.\u2019 The American people have shown time and time again that they want no part of the Trump-Vance ticket\u2019s extreme anti-choice agenda to rip away our basic freedoms, in Virginia or anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance\u2019s anti-choice record includes backing a national abortion ban, criticizing exceptions for rape and incest, comparing abortion to slavery, and more.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance said in 2022 he \u2018would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,\u2019 <\/strong>Vance said in January 2022 on a podcast when running for Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring a podcast interview in January 2022, then-candidate JD Vance said he \u2018certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019 and was \u2018sympathetic\u2019 to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think that what I really think on \u2013 so first of all, the <\/strong>Dobbs<\/em><\/strong> decision, everybody knows, overruled <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 I think that was the right decision.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manu Raju, CNN<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation \u2026 \u2018We can\u2019t give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter,\u2019 he told us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Backs \u2018National Standard\u2019 for Abortions\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest\u2014and dismissed those catalysts as \u2018inconvenient.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cOhio has a heartbeat bill [banning abortion before many women know they\u2019re pregnant], I think that\u2019s a good bill.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance Compared Abortion to Slavery\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cVance has a strong anti-abortion record and was given an A+ ranking by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a prominent anti-abortion group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe campaigned against Ohio\u2019s 2023 ballot measure that guaranteed the right to abortion, and previously said he\u2019d vote for a nationwide abortion ban at 15 weeks.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring his campaign for Senate, Vance applauded the overturning of Roe v. Wade and supported Texas\u2019s ban on abortion, which does not allow exceptions other than cases where the mother\u2019s life is at risk. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Two wrongs don\u2019t make a right,\u2019 he said in 2021 when asked whether abortion laws should allow for exceptions for rape and incest.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

ProPublica<\/a>: \u201cHe argued that conservatives needed to take action against corporations that, say, defended abortion rights or punished employees who spoke out against abortion access.<\/strong> \u2018If we\u2019re unwilling to make companies that are taking the side of the left in the culture wars feel real economic pain, then we\u2019re not serious about winning the culture war,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cSenate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSenate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation led by Democrats to revive the protections of Roe v. Wade in the wake of the Supreme Court eliminating the nationwide right to abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMINDER: Virginians rejected MAGA Republican attacks on abortion last year AND the overwhelming majority of Americans support reproductive freedoms. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. News<\/a>: \u201cGov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican with national ambitions, wants to restrict abortion in the Old Dominion. He needs only to have the GOP flip two seats in the 40-member state Senate and hang onto control of the 100-member House of Delegates \u2013 where Republicans have a 50-46 advantage, with four vacancies \u2013 to achieve his goal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cDemocrats flipped the Virginia House of Delegates and held on to the state Senate in elections Tuesday, dashing Gov. Glenn Youngkin\u2019s hopes for curbing abortion rights in Virginia<\/strong>, the only Southern state that has not restricted or banned the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy giving control of those two chambers to Democrats, voters denied Youngkin (R) the political allies he needed to ban most abortions after 15 weeks.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today<\/a>: \u201cAmericans overwhelmingly oppose the next goal of many anti-abortion activists, to enact a federal law banning abortion nationwide. By 80%-14%, those surveyed opposed that idea, including 65% of Republicans and 83% of independents.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cMost Americans support abortion access one year after Roe v. Wade: poll\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cA 64% majority of US adults say they disapprove of last year\u2019s Supreme Court ruling that women do not have a constitutional right to an abortion, with half strongly disapproving \u2013 an assessment that\u2019s almost entirely unchanged from CNN\u2019s poll last July in the immediate wake of the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump-Vance ticket is in lockstep, pushing an extreme anti-choice Project 2025 agenda as their allies plot to ban abortion nationwide and rip away reproductive care. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Hannity, Fox News<\/a>: \u201cSo you completely agree, are in full, complete agreement with President Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance: \u201cMy view is that Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and his views on abortion are going to be the views that dominate this party and drive this party forward.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cInside the MAGA Plan to Attack Birth Control, Surveil Women and Ban the Abortion Pill\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe attacks on mifepristone and resurrection of Comstock stand out as particularly harmful proposals, but they are only two of the dozens of ways the Republicans behind Project 2025 envision restricting access to abortion and contraception if they win the White House next year.<\/strong> Elsewhere in the document, there are proposals to eliminate the morning-after pill from the Affordable Care Act\u2019s contraceptive mandate under the rationale that it is a \u2018potential abortifacient.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heritage Foundation<\/a>: \u201cConservatives have to lead the way in \u2026 ending<\/strong> \u2026 senseless use of birth control pills.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hill<\/a>: \u201cTrump: It\u2019s up to states to monitor pregnancies, prosecute abortions\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politico<\/a>: \u201cOrganizations including Heritage, former Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s group Advancing American Freedom, and the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s public advocacy-focused Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission <\/strong>have worked behind the scenes over the last few weeks to distribute talking points, circulate policy recommendations and educate Republican officials and their staff about their ethical concerns with how IVF is commonly practiced in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vox<\/a>: \u201cKevin Roberts, the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the driving force behind Project 2025, told Ward that \u2018[Vance] is absolutely going to be one of the leaders \u2014 if not the leader \u2014 of our movement.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cThis is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.<\/strong> The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee \u2014 one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer \u2014 is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRoberts told me that he views Heritage\u2019s role today as \u2018institutionalizing Trumpism.\u2019 <\/strong>This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump\u2019s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that \u2018the Trump administration \u2026 simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ahead of anti-choice extremist JD Vance\u2019s rally in Virginia today, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cVirginians rejected MAGA Republicans\u2019 attacks on reproductive freedoms last year and have zero interest in JD Vance\u2019s record of saying he wants abortion to be \u2018illegal nationally,\u2019 suggesting he was open to banning women from traveling out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nJD Vance is Campaigning Today on an Anti-Choice MAGA Agenda Virginians Overwhelmingly Rejected - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-is-campaigning-today-on-an-anti-choice-maga-agenda-virginians-overwhelmingly-rejected\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-07-22T21:33:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-07-22T21:33:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-is-campaigning-today-on-an-anti-choice-maga-agenda-virginians-overwhelmingly-rejected\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-is-campaigning-today-on-an-anti-choice-maga-agenda-virginians-overwhelmingly-rejected\/\",\"name\":\"JD Vance is Campaigning Today on an Anti-Choice MAGA Agenda Virginians Overwhelmingly Rejected - 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