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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJ.D. Vance Defends Texas Abortion Ban, Calls Rape 'Inconvenient'
In a local news interview published Wednesday, author and venture capitalist turned Senate candidate J.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incestand dismissed those catalysts as inconvenient.
Asked by Curtis Jackson of Spectrum News 1 in Columbus, OH, whether a woman should be forced to give birth even if the pregnancy was the result of incest or rape, Vance replied that the question betrays a certain presumption thats wrong.
Its not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term; its whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that childs birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society, said Vance, who lags behind several Republican candidates in his Ohio primary. The question to me is really about the baby. We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life.
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Vance campaign press secretary Taylor Van Kirk provided a statement claiming Vance did not say rape and incest were inconvenient circumstances.
Nowhere in the interview cited does JD actually say what the Daily Beast is dishonestly claiming he said. The transcript of the interview bears this out as that phrase is never uttered and JD even rejects the entire premise of the question he was asked by the interviewer, the statement said. The Daily Beasts pathetic attempt to put words in his mouth show that theyve traded in any semblance of journalistic integrity to be full on leftwing political activists. (A recording of the interview can be heard here.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-defends-texas-abortion-ban-calls-rape-inconvenient
I blame the New York Times and the rest of the legacy media for giving this monster a platform.
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J.D. Vance Defends Texas Abortion Ban, Calls Rape 'Inconvenient' (Original Post)
wellst0nev0ter
Sep 2021
OP
There are no "women and young boys" in the womb. He's just another ignorant GOPper.
SharonClark
Sep 2021
#4
"Just when I think you've said the stupidest thing ever...YOU KEEP TALKING!!"
bullwinkle428
Sep 2021
#9
Lovie777
(11,992 posts)1. STFU . . .....
asswipe.
tenderfoot
(8,424 posts)2. His book was total bullshit too
shame on anyone that bought an iota of it or thought it was good.
maxrandb
(15,192 posts)7. Saw the movie once because nothing else was on
I think I'll take my family values advice from someone whose grandmother didn't set her husband on fire, or at least, not from someone who portrays his grandmother setting her husband on fire as somehow an "endearing" story.
Clash City Rocker
(3,379 posts)3. If he said it in a news conference, one would think it was recorded
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)4. There are no "women and young boys" in the womb. He's just another ignorant GOPper.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)5. I'm sorry I wasted money buying his damn book.nt
Aristus
(66,096 posts)6. Rape is "inconvenient."
I wonder what he would call it if it happened to him...
appalachiablue
(41,055 posts)8. Silicon Valley Sellout, Peter Thiel libertarian winger, book
author of 'Hillbilly Fraud'
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)9. "Just when I think you've said the stupidest thing ever...YOU KEEP TALKING!!"
Credit goes to Hank Hill, from "King of the Hill".