Fresh off the news that Donald Trump will vote to uphold Florida’s extreme six-week abortion ban, resurfaced documents and video from 2017 show JD Vance praised the Heritage Foundation’s report that proposed an extreme right-wing agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedom for millions of Americans.
The report includes contributions from right-wing extremists opposed to IVF procedures and accessing other fertility treatments, describing those treatments, falsely, as harmful to women.
Vance called the agenda “admirable” and was the keynote speaker for the report’s public release at Heritage Foundation’s offices in Washington, D.C.
According to the New York Times, the report “was released just months after Donald J. Trump became president, as social conservatives were laying the foundation for an aggressive agenda restricting sexual freedom and reproductive rights. Those policies became a hallmark of the Trump administration and Mr. Vance’s political career.”
The 2017 report argues that women should become pregnant at younger ages and that a two-parent, heterosexual household is the “ideal” environment for children.
Jennifer Lahl, an anti-abortion advocate, who founded the Center for Bioethics and Culture, a group that questions the use of fertility treatments, authored an essay in the report that attacks in vitro fertilization, and other fertility treatments, as luring women “into the belief that they can have children whenever they are finally ready.” Lahl disparages fertility treatments as “magic pills” to delay motherhood for professional advancement and calls egg-freezing a “scheme.”
Donald Trump and JD Vance have proposed extreme justifications for restricting reproductive rights for millions of people and drastically reshaping the reproductive health landscape to match the fantasies of their right-wing extremist allies.
JD Vance claimed he wanted to see abortion “illegal nationally,” claimed women were using abortion care as another form of birth control, and suggested that forced birth should be viewed as an “opportunity.”
Donald Trump bragged about nominating the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe, claimed he wouldn’t stop extreme state legislatures from monitoring women’s pregnancies and doctors who administered abortion care, and signaled he would ban the abortion medication mifepristone during a second term in office.
“There is no debating Donald Trump and JD Vance’s extreme views on abortion and reproductive health care. For nearly a decade, both candidates have allied with the most extreme factions of their party and adhered to their rigid views opposing reproductive health rights, personal bodily autonomy, and sexual freedom,” said American Bridge 21st Century spokesperson, Brandon Weathersby. “These two are an anti-abortion extremist’s dream ticket because they’ve shown they’ll say anything to get elected, and then attack reproductive health rights once they get into office. The Trump-Vance White House will carry out the Project 2025 agenda to use bureaucratic rules to restrict reproductive rights even further nationally and let extreme legislatures enforce draconian abortion bans in states across the country.”
Published: Sep 5, 2024