The Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA) nonprofit organization that supports anti-abortion politicians through its SBA Pro-Life America Candidate Fund political action committee called JD Vance a “strong pick” to be former President Trump’s runningmate in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
“JD Vance is an exceptional selection as President Trump’s running mate,” SBA president Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement Monday afternoon. “His courage in exposing Democrats’ agenda of abortion
for any reason, even in the seventh, eighth, or ninth month, helped propel him to a decisive victory in the 2022 midterm elections.”
Dannenfelser said Vance’s “hardscrabble upbrining” informs his “compassionate” approach to certain abortion restrictions.
In 2021, Vance defended a Texas law that banned most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Asked by Spectrum News in Columbus, Ohio, at the time whether he supported abortion exceptions for cases of rape and incest, he disagreed with the question’s premise and said “two wrongs don’t make a right.”
“At the end of day, we are talking about an unborn baby. What kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded? … 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,” Vance said.
He also said during the Ohio Senate debate in 2022 against Democratic opponent Tim Ryan that he was pro-life with “reasonable exceptions.” He also said that year he supported Sen. Lindsey Graham’s, R-S.C., proposed 15-week abortion ban that included exceptions for rape, incest and the mother’s life.
However, a national abortion ban has been left off the Republican National Convention (RNC) platform, and Trump opposes one, too.
Fox News Digital’s David Rutz contributed to this report.
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