JD Vance: Suburban women don’t care about abortion, they care about ‘normal things’

I will keep hammering away at this through November: this election is about abortion. This election is about women’s rights and reproduction rights. While many people are capable of caring about many issues all at once, the 2022 Dobbs decision (which overturned Roe) changed American politics in a fundamental way. I think a lot about Hillary Clinton repeatedly warning, in 2016, that no one should feel any kind of complacency about reproductive rights, that Roe is not guaranteed. She was right and now everyone sees that. But it’s August and the Trump-Vance campaign clearly doesn’t understand that their extremist, Handmaid’s Tale-esque positions on reproductive rights are the “thing” which will ensure their loss. Speaking of, JD Vance did an interview this week on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show. Ingraham asked him about whether suburban women care about reproductive rights. His answer was bonkers.

Sen. JD Vance, who has been dragged for his controversial comments about women ever since Donald Trump selected him as his running mate, added to the list Wednesday by suggesting that it isn’t “normal” for women to care about abortion rights. In a post-Roe v. Wade country where Republican lawmakers have restricted that right for millions of women in dozens of states, Vance didn’t seem to understand why that might be a key issue in the upcoming election when asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

“One of my dear friends said to me tonight that all these suburban women—all they care about is abortion, and they don’t understand the decision is with the states now. It’s not banned nationally, even if some people want it to be banned nationally,” she said. “What do you say to suburban women out there who are marinating in this propaganda?”

Vance promptly suggested that such concerns were abnormal. “Well, first of all, I don’t buy that, Laura. I think most suburban women care about the normal things that most Americans care about, right?” he replied. “They care about inflation, they care about the price of groceries, they care about public safety in the streets where their kids play.”

Vance maintained that Trump, whose three Supreme Court nominees each voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and who suggested last week that he would ban abortion pill mifepristone, has “charted a very reasonable course for the American people” on the abortion issue.

[From The Daily Beast]

Ingraham’s question is hilariously panicked because she’s trying to let Vance know: you guys need to figure out a way to talk about this sh-t in a way that doesn’t alienate white suburban women. And Vance was like, I know, I’ll just say that those girls shouldn’t worry their pretty little heads over it, it’s NOT NORMAL for women to care about their bodily autonomy! One side is saying “stay out of women’s business” and the other side is saying “ladies, don’t even pay attention when we say that your wombs belong to the state.”

Q: What do you say to suburban women who are worried about abortion rights?

Vance: I don’t buy that, I think suburban women care about normal things pic.twitter.com/AFp1mdr50x

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 14, 2024

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