This week, former President Donald Trump announced his running mate, Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, who does not hide his strong stance against abortion. Vance, 39, is most notorious for his 2016 memoir-turned-movie “Hillbilly Elegy,” as well as a former venture capitalist who has publicly aligned himself as a nationalist. In a November 2023 X post, he wrote: “I am as pro life as anyone, and I want to save as many babies as possible.”
Vance has also compared abortion to slavery and described Ohio’s vote to enshrine abortion rights as “a gut punch” for anti-abortion officials. Reproductive rights organizations are sounding the alarm that Vance is an extreme pick who has said that pregnancies conceived from rape or incest shouldn’t be viewed as "inconvenient.”
