In 2022, then-Senate candidate J.D. Vance sat down with Aimee Terese — a pundit and podcaster little known to the American public, but prominent in the sloppy trenches of hyper-online digital reactionaries — and removed his filter.
“I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,” Vance said in the episode, explaining why regulating abortion at the state level wouldn’t work. “Let’s say Roe v. Wade is overruled,” he said.
“Ohio bans abortion ...
you know, in let’s say 2024. And then, every day, George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately black women to get them to go have abortions in California. And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity.
” It wasn’t the only time that Vance would express support for a national abortion ban: Later that year, he characterized a 15-week national abortion ban proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham as “totally reasonable.” Now, Vance is running on the Republican ticket with Donald Trump , who is attempting to run as an abortion “moderate” despite appointing three Supreme Court justices who were integral to overturning Roe v.
Wade . As such, Vance’s history as an anti-abortion hardliner — who compared abortion to slavery — is being rewritten and sanitized. On Monday, The New York Times erroneously wrote that “Mr.
Vance, like Mr. Trump, opposes a national abortion ban, saying the issue should now be left to the states.” (The piece has since been corrected.