-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email This week, former President Donald Trump announced his running mate, Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, who does not hide his strong stance against abortion. Vance, 39, is most notorious for his 2016 memoir-turned-movie “Hillbilly Elegy,” as well as a former venture capitalist who has publicly aligned himself as a nationalist .
In a November 2023 X post, he wrote: “I am as pro life as anyone, and I want to save as many babies as possible.” Vance has also compared abortion to slavery and described Ohio’s vote to enshrine abortion rights as “a gut punch” for anti-abortion officials. Reproductive rights organizations are sounding the alarm that Vance is an extreme pick who has said that pregnancies conceived from rape or incest shouldn’t be viewed as " inconvenient .
” Related "Reckless" and "unsafe": The misinformation around "late-term abortion" is harmful, experts say “If the Republican Party’s plan to come after our reproductive rights wasn’t clear enough, look no further than Trump’s VP pick, JD Vance,” Jenny Lawson, executive director for Planned Parenthood Votes, said in a media statement. “From supporting a national abortion ban , to voting to block nationwide access to IVF , Vance has consistently attacked and undermined reproductive freedom throughout his career — and he will take that dangerous record to the White House, cosigning every policy that comes his way, no matter the harm.” As vice presi.