{"id":1047582,"date":"2024-09-04T19:44:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1047582"},"modified":"2024-09-04T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:44:55","slug":"jd-vance-%f0%9f%a4%9d-charlie-kirk-anti-choice-extremists-celebrating-trumps-abortion-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/jd-vance-%f0%9f%a4%9d-charlie-kirk-anti-choice-extremists-celebrating-trumps-abortion-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance \ud83e\udd1d Charlie Kirk: Anti-Choice Extremists Celebrating Trump\u2019s Abortion Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In response to JD Vance <\/em>campaigning<\/em><\/a> with fellow anti-choice extremist Charlie Kirk in Arizona today, <\/em>DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJD Vance is hitting the trail today with yet another anti-choice extremist who praised the Arizona Supreme Court as making \u2018the right decision\u2019 when it upheld a near-total abortion ban. Charlie Kirk wants abortion banned nationwide, and Donald Trump and Vance are plotting to do just that with or without Congress as part of their dangerous Project 2025 agenda. Women in Arizona and across the country are already suffering under Trump\u2019s cruel abortion bans after he overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>. The American people won\u2019t let the Trump-Vance ticket and their extreme far-right stooges like Kirk take their horrifying reality even further.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance is campaigning with fellow anti-choice extremist Charlie Kirk, who praised the Arizona Supreme Court for upholding a Civil War-era law banning abortion before many women know they\u2019re pregnant. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk<\/a>: \u201cThe Arizona Supreme Court made the right decision [to uphold a near-total abortion ban]. I want to build a movement where abortion \u2026 [does] not happen in the country\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media Matters<\/a>: \u201cCharlie Kirk says the Arizona court decision banning abortion \u2018should have been met with celebration\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance celebrated when Donald Trump \u201cproudly\u201d overturned <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong>, paving the way for extreme abortion bans across the country \u2014 including Arizona\u2019s ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cThe U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade overrode many state abortion laws, but after the court reversed that decision nearly two years ago, some states began once again to enact restrictions. In Arizona\u2019s case, the Legislature passed a law in 2022 banning the procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arizona Attorney General\u2019s Office<\/a>: \u201cArizona law does not have exceptions for rape or incest.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JD Vance<\/a>: \u201cI think that what I really think on \u2013 so first of all, the <\/strong>Dobbs<\/em><\/strong> decision, everybody knows, overruled <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 I think that was the right decision.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cI was proudly the person responsible for the ending of Roe v. Wade\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cFor 54 years they were trying to get <\/strong>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/strong> terminated, and I did it, and I\u2019m proud to have done it. \u2026 Nobody else was going to get that done but me, and we did it, and we did something that was a miracle.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cWe broke Roe v. Wade and we did something that nobody thought was possible. We gave it back to the states, and the states are working very brilliantly \u2026 But they\u2019re working, and it\u2019s working the way it\u2019s supposed to.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Says He\u2019s \u2018Proud\u2019 to Have \u2018Terminated\u2019 Abortion Rights\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If given the chance, Trump and Vance would ban abortion nationwide as part of their dangerous Project 2025 agenda.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/a>: \u201cTrump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a>: \u201cThere of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it\u2019s very important.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump on if he would sign a six-week national abortion ban<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m looking at all options.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cJD Vance said in 2022 he \u2018would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/strong>During a podcast interview in January 2022, then-candidate JD Vance said he \u2018certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally\u2019 and was \u2018sympathetic\u2019 to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsweek<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance Backs \u2018National Standard\u2019 for Abortions\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Beast<\/a>: \u201cJ.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest\u2014and dismissed those catalysts as \u2018inconvenient.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Republic<\/a>: \u201cOn January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation.<\/strong> This is not a secret plan\u2014far from it. It\u2019s part of the 180-Day Playbook produced by Project 2025, detailing priorities for an incoming conservative president on day one. These 900 pages lay out a Christian nationalist vision of the United States, one in which married heterosexuality is the only valid form of sexual expression and identity; all pregnancies would be carried to term, even if that requires coercion or death; and transgender and gender-nonconforming people do not exist\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe playbook says the president should enforce a 150-year-old law, the Comstock Act, which right-wing groups see as a way to ban abortion nationally because it outlaws the use of the mail for the purposes of sending or receiving any object that could be used for an abortion.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vance<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201c[Project 2025] is undeniably a Trump-driven operation.<\/strong> The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee \u2014 one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer \u2014 is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cRoberts told me that he views Heritage\u2019s role today as \u2018institutionalizing Trumpism.\u2019 <\/strong>This includes leading Project 2025, a transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power. The lesson of Trump\u2019s first year in office, Roberts told me, is that \u2018the Trump administration \u2026 simply got a slow start. And Heritage and our allies in Project 2025 believe that must never be repeated.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REALITY CHECK: Attacks on reproductive rights, like Trump and Vance\u2019s anti-choice Project 2025 agenda to rip away reproductive freedoms, are wildly unpopular in Arizona and beyond.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press<\/a>: \u201cAccording to AP VoteCast, a broad survey of the electorate, 61% of Arizona voters in the 2022 midterm elections said abortion should be legal in most or all cases. […]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTwo-thirds of midterm voters in Arizona said the Supreme Court\u2019s overturning of Roe v. Wade was an important factor in their vote for that election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbout 6 in 10 Arizona voters in that election said they would favor a law guaranteeing access to legal abortion nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cThe polling, from CBS News and YouGov, shows striking margins in Arizona and Florida for enshrining abortion rights into those states\u2019 constitutions. That position leads 65 percent to 21 percent in Arizona.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA Today<\/a>: \u201cAmericans overwhelmingly oppose the next goal of many anti-abortion activists, to enact a federal law banning abortion nationwide.<\/strong> By 80%-14%, those surveyed opposed that idea, including 65% of Republicans and 83% of independents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cRecord share of U.S. voters back abortion rights and will vote on it: Gallup\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NBC News<\/a>: \u201cAbortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade was overturned\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cMost Americans support abortion access one year after Roe v. Wade: poll\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN Poll<\/a>: \u201cAbout two-thirds (65%) oppose the 2022 Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization, and 34% approve, numbers that have remained effectively unchanged in CNN\u2019s polling across the nearly two years since the ruling. Those who strongly disapprove of the decision continue to outnumber those who strongly approve by a more than 2-to-1 margin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA 69% majority who disapprove of overturning Roe, including 82% of those who strongly disapprove, say that federal politicians should work to pass laws ensuring national abortion access.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: \u201cThere\u2019s widespread support for letting women obtain drugs for medication abortion from their doctor or a clinic, with 72% supporting \u2014 including half of Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to JD Vance campaigning with fellow anti-choice extremist Charlie Kirk in Arizona today, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement:  \u201cJD Vance is hitting the trail today with yet another anti-choice extremist who praised the Arizona Supreme Court as making \u2018the right decision\u2019 when it upheld a near-total abortion ban. 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