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(1,080 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2024, 07:03 AM Jul 2024

J.D. Vance Endorsed a National Abortion Ban in the Grossest Way Possible

Trump’s running mate said a national abortion ban was necessary to keep George Soros from flying “black women” to California for abortions

BY ANDREW PEREZ, NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ

JULY 17, 2024

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
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jd-vance-national-abortion-ban-soros-1235062748/

Blatant antisemitism and barbaric reasoning regarding a woman's right to an abortion. Vance was a participant in fighting the Biden Administration in a letter pushing back on HIPAA privacy expansion. The Republicans want to be able to track and criminalize abortion by unprecedented means since Roe v Wade was flipped.

Biden’s HIPAA expansion for abortion draws criticism, lawsuit threats
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/18/biden-hipaa-expansion-abortion-00106694

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J.D. Vance Endorsed a National Abortion Ban in the Grossest Way Possible (Original Post) Passages Jul 2024 OP

Their brains and their logic have gotten so twisted. I don't even know where to begin. Walleye Jul 2024 #1

Republicans would love to see planeloads of black women having abortions. Projection is confession of wants. Lonestarblue Jul 2024 #2

I would think this bigot would be all for black women having abortions travelingthrulife Jul 2024 #3

They want poor and desperate families, orthoclad Jul 2024 #4

gross and dumb. Of course Ohio outlawed abortion right away, that year right after Roe was overturned LymphocyteLover Jul 2024 #5

Walleye

(35,686 posts)

1. Their brains and their logic have gotten so twisted. I don't even know where to begin.

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Thu Jul 18, 2024, 07:31 AM

Jul 2024

Lonestarblue

(11,834 posts)

2. Republicans would love to see planeloads of black women having abortions. Projection is confession of wants.

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Thu Jul 18, 2024, 07:45 AM

Jul 2024

If they could have figured out a way to pass abortion laws applying only to white women, they would have done it. Much of resistance to abortion is about forcing women to kowtow to extremist Christian patriarchy and also to protect the white majority and white supremacy in this country.

travelingthrulife

(710 posts)

3. I would think this bigot would be all for black women having abortions

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Thu Jul 18, 2024, 09:50 AM

Jul 2024

Fewer black babies.

"Life begins at first breath", read that bible you thump.

orthoclad

(4,728 posts)

4. They want poor and desperate families,

Reply to travelingthrulife (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 19, 2024, 08:46 PM

Jul 2024

willing to work for whatever crumbs that what Vance called the "ruling class" wants to hand out. Just enough crumbs to keep having babies, not enough crumbs for a long life. Work hard, die young, leave a corpse in debt to the banks.

LymphocyteLover

(6,765 posts)

5. gross and dumb. Of course Ohio outlawed abortion right away, that year right after Roe was overturned