now J.D. Vance Officially Donald TrumpGiven that Trump has been floated as a potential running mate for President in 2024, many are curious about Trump’s political positions. For example, does Trump believe that pregnant people should have the right to make decisions about their own bodies? Does he believe couples should be able to divorce if they want? Should the US aid Ukraine? That’s a firm no, no, no. And Trump’s positions on these issues, and others, are somehow even worse in context!
abortion
Vance is strongly opposed to abortion. In 2021, he opposed exceptions for incest and rape, saying that “two wrongs do not make one right,” adding that “the question is not whether a woman should be forced to give birth, but whether that child should be allowed to live even if the circumstances of that child’s birth are in some way inconvenient or problematic for society.” He later vaguely expressed support for “reasonable exceptions,” generously stating that there should be exceptions if the mother’s life is at risk. When he ran for the Senate in 2022, his campaign website said he would “ban abortion.” In a debate with Democratic House members, he said, Tim Ryan Vance said he supports a nationwide ban on abortion, saying, “I’m perfectly fine with having a minimum national standard.”
Vance has also compared abortion to slavery.
divorce
Vance has suggested that violent marriages should remain for the sake of children. Speaking at Pacifica Christian High School in 2021, he argued that divorce does terrible harm to children and that people in unhappy marriages are better off staying together, even if their marriages are “violent.” Vance told the audience: “My grandparents had marriages that were incredibly chaotic in many ways. But they didn’t divorce. They stayed together until the end, until death separated us. That was really important to my grandmother and grandfather. That obviously wasn’t the case in the ’70s and ’80s. And I think maybe I personally, and a lot of kids in my community who grew up in my generation, suffered personally from the fact that a lot of their mothers and fathers viewed marriage as a fundamental contract. Like any business transaction, if it’s no longer good for one or both of the parties, you just dissolve it and move on to a new business relationship. But I think the recognition that marriage is sacred was a really powerful thing that held a lot of families together. And unfortunately, when that went away, I think a lot of kids suffered.”
In his book, Vance writes: Hillbilly Elegy, His grandfather was a “violent drunk” and his grandmother a “violent non-drinker.” In one anecdote, before he was born, his grandmother told his grandfather that she would kill him if he came home drunk again, and when he did come home, she tried to kill him. “Mama, who never lies, calmly got a gasoline can from the garage, poured it all over her husband, lit a match and dropped it on his chest. As Papaw burst into flames, her 11-year-old daughter jumped in to put out the fire and saved his life.”
In Vitro Fertilization
Despite praising Hungary’s policies to encourage families to have children, Vance voted against a Democratic bill to protect access to in vitro fertilization.
LGBTQ+ rights
Vance wants to ban gender-reassignment care for minors, and last year introduced a bill that would make such care a felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison. In 2022, he said he “strongly opposes” it.[s]”Gender identity and sexual orientation should be protected by anti-discrimination laws,” he argued, saying that if he were president at the time, he would have opposed the Respect for Marriage Act, which would have guaranteed marriage rights for same-sex and interracial couples.
Ukraine
On podcast Steve Bannon “I think the focus on Ukraine’s border is ridiculous, and to be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine,” Vance said in 2022.
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