Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Trump Choosing Sen. J. D. Vance as Pick for Vice President

For Immediate Release: Monday, July 15, 2024

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Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Trump Choosing Sen. J. D. Vance as Pick for Vice President 

Washington, DC — Today, Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, officially announced Republican Ohio Senator, J. D. Vance, as his running mate for his 2024 presidential run.

Reproductive Freedom for All President and CEO Mini Timmaraju released the following statement in response:

“Donald Trump selecting J. D. Vance as his pick for vice president provides even more evidence that a Trump administration will stop at nothing to ban all abortion. Make no mistake, Trump picked him because of —not in spite of— his anti-abortion bonafides. A Trump-Vance administration will be the most dangerous administration for abortion and reproductive freedom in this country’s history. We must re-elect President Biden and Vice President Harris to not only restore our rights but to safeguard our democracy.”

Vance has worked in lockstep with extremist Republicans in the Senate to undermine reproductive freedom—refusing to back down from the dangerous abortion bans and restrictions his party has engineered.

• Vance has voiced support for a national abortion ban.
• During his time in Congress, Vance has scored a consistent 0% on Reproductive Freedom for All’s congressional record.
• When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Vance tweeted out a statement using “personhood” language to call for federal policy on abortion. Applying this language to the law could outlaw all abortion, as well as some forms of contraception and assisted fertility treatments such as IVF.
• Last week, Vance voted with Senate Republicans to block a bill supporting protecting and restoring abortion rights and access following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
• Vance voted against efforts to protect the right to IVF.

A second Trump presidency would give Donald Trump another opportunity to do untold damage to our fundamental rights. Anti-abortion groups—who teamed up with Trump during his last administration to lay the groundwork to overturn Roe and decimate reproductive freedom—have partnered with at least 140 former Trump administration officials to create a lengthy agenda that he could begin launching on Day One of his administration. Those plans offer Trump a laundry list of options to attack abortion rights and access, including reviving the domestic gag rule, deploying the Federal Trade Commission to penalize and prosecute virtual clinics that prescribe abortion pills to people in states with bans, attempting to wilfully misinterpret and misuse the antiquated Comstock Act to block access to both abortion pills and medical equipment used for abortion services, and rescinding all of the policies the Biden-Harris administration enacted that expanded abortion access.

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For over 50 years, Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America) has fought to protect and advance reproductive freedom at the federal and state levels—including access to abortion care, birth control, pregnancy and post-partum care, and paid family leave—for everybody. Reproductive Freedom for All is powered by its more than 4 million members from every state and congressional district in the country, representing the 8 in 10 Americans who support legal abortion.