Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) did his best to sanitize his party’s extreme anti-abortion record during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate.
Vance reiterated Donald Trump’s position that abortion rights should be left to the states, but when fact-checked on his own past comments on reproductive rights, Vance either evaded or downright lied about his record.
“I never supported a national ban,” Vance said when CBS News moderators asked about his past comments supporting a federal abortion ban. “I did, when I was running for Senate in 2022, talk about setting some minimum national standard.”
Vance, who has continually said he wants women to have more children , supported a national abortion ban in 2022, saying he would “certainly” like for “abortion to be illegal nationally.” He also called for federal restrictions on traveling for abortion care and conjured an absurd fictional scenario where George Soros fills up airplanes with Black pregnant women from Ohio and flies them to California so they can get abortions.