Trump's VP Pick, J.D. Vance, Pushed for Police to Track & Criminalize Abortions

[Uncle Joe]

As Donald Trump and his new running mate J.D. Vance try to soften their anti-abortion position ahead of the 2024 election, new documents uncovered by The Lever show Vance lobbied just last year to let police track people who cross state lines for abortions. Vance, a first-term senator from Ohio, pressured federal regulators to kill a privacy rule designed to prevent state and local police in anti-abortion states from using private medical records to prosecute people who access abortion services elsewhere. “What’s really shocking and scary about this story is that the rule was just implemented by the Biden administration, it wasn’t signed into law. So, an incoming Trump administration could potentially repeal it,” says reporter Veronica Riccobene.

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[bucolic_frolic]

1. VANCE IS IN YOUR BEDROOM

is a great campaign sign!

[Blue Owl]

2. The Hillbilly is Watching

You got a real purdy uterus there, ma'am....

[bucolic_frolic]

3. That OP cover photo bears a resemblance to Dracula

[wolfie001]

4. Is that tattooed eyeliner?

His eyes seem so odd. Very Vincent Price-like.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Why JD Vance's record on abortion rights matters in 2024 race

If Donald Trump didn't want a running mate who was too extreme on abortion rights, he really shouldn't have tapped the senator from Ohio for the Republican ticket.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vances-record-abortion-rights-trump-2024-race-rcna162554

To be sure, “too staunch” is a matter of perspective, but if the presumptive GOP nominee tapped Sen. JD Vance for the ticket assuming that his views on reproductive rights would seem mainstream, Trump made a poor choice.

Take this Washington Post report, for example.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), newly tapped as the GOP vice-presidential nominee, last year joined an effort to enforce the Comstock Act, the 151-year-old federal law that has become a lightning rod in the nation’s abortion debate. The Comstock Act, which bans the mailing of abortion-related materials, has not been invoked for that purpose in about a century. ... But some Republicans have attempted to resurrect the law to limit or effectively ban abortion nationwide, a position that Vance and other lawmakers conveyed to Attorney General Merrick Garland in a January 2023 letter.

Unfortunately for the Republican ticket, this is just one of many relevant data points.

While Trump has avoided endorsing a national abortion ban, for example, CNN reported that Vance, during his Senate candidacy, said, “I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally.”

Vance, the year before reaching Capitol Hill, said at the time, “I’m sympathetic to the view that like, okay, look here, here’s a situation — let’s say Roe vs. Wade is overruled. Ohio bans abortion, in 2022 or let’s say 2024. And then, you know, every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California. And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity — uh, that’s kind of creepy.”.....

And did I mention that Vance publicly endorsed his home state’s six-week abortion ban, which does not include exceptions for rape or incest? Because he did that, too.

All of which brings us back to the concerns Trump reportedly expressed in the spring. “He’s concerned it will have a drag on the ticket if they’re seen as holding too staunch a position”? By any fair measure, Vance is one of the Senate’s most far-right Republicans when it comes to reproductive rights, with a series of beliefs that most Americans would see as extreme.