Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) known as Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s (R) “personal connection” to reproductive rights throughout Tuesday’s vice presidential debate “clever,” however she mentioned “it isn’t real,” stressing it doesn’t present clear assist for ladies to make their very own reproductive choices.
“I think that that was clever to use that personal connection, but it isn’t real in terms of women having the right to make their own decisions and not politicians making their decisions for them,” Pelosi instructed host Dana Bash in an interview on CNN.
Bash had requested Pelosi what her response was to remarks made by Vance in the course of the debate the place the senator opened up a couple of girl he knew who had an abortion.
“I grew up in a working-class family in a neighborhood where I knew a lot of young women who had unplanned pregnancies and decided to terminate those pregnancies because they feel like they didn’t have any other options,” Vance mentioned in the course of the debate.
“And one of them is actually very dear to me, and I know she’s watching tonight, and I love you. She told me something a couple of years ago that she felt like if she hadn’t had that abortion, it would’ve destroyed her life because she was in an abusive relationship,” he mentioned.
Vance later added, “We’ve got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people’s trust back on this issue where they frankly just don’t trust us.”
Bash additionally talked about an undecided feminine voter in CNN’s postdebate focus group who had mentioned that Vance’s reply made her extra “encouraged” concerning the GOP ticket as a result of “he sounded more progressive” than anticipated.
However Pelosi was fast to slam the Trump-Vance ticket on a nationwide abortion ban.
“This administration is for an abortion ban — a national abortion ban — and when they say leave it up to the states, the states have their own abortion bans. We need to protect them by having Roe v. Wade be the national policy of our country,” Pelosi mentioned.
“I don’t know what hope she saw in that,” Pelosi added. “A woman’s right to choose is to choose to have the child or not have the child.”
Former President Trump weighed in on the problem, posting on Fact Social that he would veto a federal abortion ban as the subject was being mentioned in the course of the debate. He had beforehand refused to say whether or not he would accomplish that.
“Everyone knows I would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances, and would, in fact, veto it, because it is up to the states to decide based on the will of their voters (The will of the people!),” Trump wrote.
Abortion has been a focus of this election cycle, with this presidential election being the primary since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Latest polling from KFF confirmed that almost all voters mentioned they suppose November’s presidential election could have a “major” influence on abortion entry, although extra folks mentioned they care concerning the economic system and inflation than abortion or some other particular person well being concern.
Sixty-one % of surveyed voters mentioned the result of this yr’s presidential election could have a significant influence on entry to abortion on this nation — up 10 share factors from the same ballot in March, in accordance with the info.
The Hill has contacted Vance’s press workforce for remark.
