On Friday, Donald Trump said that his administration “will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” Conservative evangelicals responded. We covered it here.
Today, JD Vance said that if Trump were president and congress sent him a national ban on abortion, he would veto it.
Here is Jill Colvin at the Associated Press:
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance says Donald Trump would not support a national abortion ban if elected president and would veto such legislation if it landed on his desk.
“I can absolutely commit that,” Vance said when asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether he could commit to Trump not imposing such a ban. “Donald Trump’s view is that we want the individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities to make these decisions because we don’t want to have a nonstop federal conflict over this issue.”
The Ohio senator also insisted that Trump, the former president who is the Republican nominee this year, would veto such legislation if it were passed by Congress.
“I mean, if you’re not supporting it as the president of the United States, you fundamentally have to veto it,” he said in an interview that aired Sunday.
But efforts to try to neutralize an issue that Democrats hope will galvanize voters this fall also risk alienating parts of Trump’s base opposed to abortion rights.
Read the rest here.
Vance says that “individual states and their individual cultures and their unique political sensibilities” will decide abortion. Individual cultures? I’d like to hear him elaborate on that a bit more.
The evangelical pro-life movement is responding (although most are silent–it is Sunday after all):
Perkins commented yesterday as well:
I haven’t seen Jeffress’s sermon this morning, but I am betting that abortion came up:
Tom Cotton seems to support Trump’s position:
Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody:
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Denny Burk:
The “spirit of the Confederacy” is invoked:
Ralph Reed says anyone who votes for Harris-Walz is complicit with immorality. Essentially Reed says he could never vote for someone who would allow abortion. But he will be voting for Trump/Walz. (This interview was conducted before Vance’s comments today.)
Is Sean Feucht referring to Trump here?:
Don’t know a Trump/Walz ticket. That aside, there is no way a person called a -Conservative Christian- should even, let the odorous thought, of voting for H/W enter there –
Transformed Noodles.
Socialism-Globalism-Open Border-ism is not a -Prescription for a Healthy USA.
“Socialism-Globalism-Open Border-ism” … Hmm. Sounds like something out of Isaiah …