By The Diary
02 Oct 2024, 00:54 AM EDT
The debate of the vice presidential candidates took place in New York, and was organized by CBS News, which, by the way, will be the first and only one, between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz. During one of the topics, the Ohio senator acknowledged that Republicans need to do a better job of earning women’s trust when talking about the issue of abortion.
Abortion has become one of the key issues in electoral campaigns. During the debate between Walz and Vance, she recalled that during her youth “some women decided to terminate their pregnancies,” among them, one of her friends who terminated the pregnancy “because it was the result of an abusive relationship.”
“In this matter they frankly do not trust”
“As a Republican I want to protect innocent life in this country, I proudly want to protect the vulnerable. In my party we have to do a much better job of earning back the trust of the American people on this issue where, frankly, they don’t trust us,” JD Vance said, NBC News reported.
“That’s one of the things that Donald Trump and I are trying to do. I want us as the Republican Party to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. “I want to support fertility treatments,” added the Ohio senator.
Vance’s comments came during his time in the debate, facing off against Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in a lengthy exchange over abortion, with each man at times accusing the other of taking extreme positions.
“Let the voters make these decisions”
The Republican candidate went on to say that both he and Donald Trump were consistent that abortion policies should differ from state to state to represent a “diverse” country, NBC News shared.
“California has a different view than Georgia on this issue. Georgia has a different point of view than Arizona. And the right way to handle this, as chaotic as democracy sometimes is, is to let the voters make these decisions, to let each state make its own policy on abortion,” Vance stressed.
Despite accepting that they must do more work on the issue, he also accused Democrats of adopting “a very radical stance in favor of abortion” and noted that Vice President Kamala Harris would force medical providers who oppose abortion to perform it.
“Trump boasts of putting the judges who overturned Roe v. “Wade”
For his part, Democratic candidate Tim Walz accused Trump and Vance of adopting extreme principles, in addition to commenting that they would institute some type of pregnancy registry and create barriers to obtaining contraceptives and fertility treatments.
“Donald Trump set all this in motion. He brags about how great it was to put the judges in and overturn Roe v. Wade,” Walz said.
During her time in the debate, Walz countered the idea that each state would implement one solution and that this would somehow benefit women. And he cited a case in Texas, where a woman had a serious complication at 18 weeks of pregnancy, “but was not allowed to have an abortion.”
“At that point, the doctor must decide what medical care should be given, and that would have been an abortion, but in Texas that would have put them in legal jeopardy. “He went home, had sepsis and almost died,” Walz noted.
The Democratic candidate supported Kamala Harris’ promise to restore protections for women’s health under Roe v. Wade.
With information from NBC News
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