J.D. Vance Defends Texas Abortion Ban, Calls Rape 'Inconvenient'

[wellst0nev0ter]

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 incest—and 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 that’s wrong.”

“It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term; it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s 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 Beast’s pathetic attempt to put words in his mouth show that they’ve 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.

[Lovie777]

1. STFU . . .....

asswipe.

[tenderfoot]

2. His book was total bullshit too

shame on anyone that bought an iota of it or thought it was good.

[maxrandb]

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. If he said it in a news conference, one would think it was recorded

[SharonClark]

4. There are no "women and young boys" in the womb. He's just another ignorant GOPper.

[jaysunb]

5. I'm sorry I wasted money buying his damn book.nt

[Aristus]

6. Rape is "inconvenient."

I wonder what he would call it if it happened to him...

[appalachiablue]

8. Silicon Valley Sellout, Peter Thiel libertarian winger, book

author of 'Hillbilly Fraud'

[bullwinkle428]

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".