Senator JD Vance, in agreement with Donald Trump, says he supports abortion pill
On NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning, Ohio Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance said he supports access to the abortion pill mifepristone—repeating what Donald Trump said over a week ago on debate stage.
“On the abortion pill,” Vance began, “the Supreme Court has ruled that the American people should have access to that pill, Donald Trump has supported that opinion, I support that opinion.”
He is referring to the recent court case. denial of an effort to restrict access to mifepristone—that is safer than penicillin and Viagra. Their ruling leaves open the possibility of future attacks on the drug, has been calculated accounted for 63 percent of all abortions in 2023 and was already lifeline for pregnant women in states with strict bans.
When asked by the CNN debate moderator Dana Bash If he were to block the abortion pill, the former president said, “first of all, the Supreme Court just approved the abortion pill. And I agree with their decision to do that, and I’m not going to block it.” Earlier that week, Trump speak a crowd of Protestants, “You must follow your heart. You must also remember that you must be elected.”
With the Republican National Convention kicking off July 15 in Milwaukee, those on the right appear to be trying to come to a consensus on how they should talk about abortion—something about 1 in 8 voters say is the most important issue boost their votes.
Vance’s response came after the host of Meet the Press Kristen Welker asked the senator about his stance on Project 2025—a Republican tactical handbook about how four more years of Trump should play out. The project is organized by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative research groupand is made up of a coalition of other conservative organizations. Although former Trump administration members such as the housing secretary Ben CarsonWhite House trade adviser Peter Navarroand Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought In joining Project 2025, the former president tried to distance himself from the playbook, require He “doesn’t know who is behind this.”
“Abortion pills pose the greatest threat to unborn children in the post-abortion era.”Caviar world,” Project 2025’s “A Quest for Leadership: The Conservative Party’s Promise” reads. “Now that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that the Constitution does not provide a right to abortion,” the document continues, “the FDA is morally and legally obligated to reconsider and withdraw its initial approval.”
“The Heritage Foundation does a lot of good work. They do a lot of things that I disagree with, a lot of things that I agree with,” Vance told Welker. “I guarantee you there are things that Trump likes and doesn’t like about that 900-page document,” he continued, referring to the assignment. “But he’s the one who’s going to set the agenda for the next administration.”
Vance said he has not received a call from Trump asking him to formally run with him. “Most importantly, Kristen, we’re just trying to work to elect Donald Trump. Whoever the vice president is, he has a lot of good people to choose from.”
Vance has previously been staunchly anti-abortion.
In 2021, after the Texas legislature passed near-total ban on abortionVance forewarned “My position on this issue is very clear,” he said, “not whether a woman should be forced to give birth” but “whether a child should be allowed to live even if the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or problematic for society.”
