J.D. Vance
speaker
115 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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And you know, I I I grew up in a working class family in a neighborhood where I knew a lot of young women who had unplanned pregnancies and decided to terminate those pregnancies because they feel like they didn't have any other options.
And you know, I I I one of them is actually very dear to me.
And I know she's watching tonight, and I love ya.
And she told me something a couple years ago that she felt like if she hadn't had that abortion, that it would have destroyed her life because she was in an abusive relationship.
And I think that what I take from that, as a Republican who proudly wants to protect innocent life in this country, who proudly wants to protect the vulnerable, is that my party, we've got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people's trust back on this issue, where they frankly
Okay.
A number of my Republican colleagues and some Democrats too have worked on this issue.
And I think there is a bipartisan solution here because a lot of us care about this issue.
I mean, look, I I I I speak from this very personally because I'm married to a beautiful woman who is an incredible mother to our three beautiful kids, but is also a very, very brilliant corporate litigator.
And I'm so proud of her.
But being a working mom, even for somebody with all of the advantages of my wife, is extraordinary.
Narrowly difficult.
And it's not just difficult from a policy perspective.
She actually had access to paid family leave because she worked for a bigger company, but the cultural pressure on young families and especially young women, I think, makes it really hard for people to choose the family model they want.
A lot of young women would like to go back to work immediately.
Some would like to spend a little time home with the kids, some would like to spend longer at home with the kids.
We should have a family care model.
That makes choice possible.
What President Trump has said is that there were problems in 2020, and my own belief is that we should fight about those issues, debate those issues peacefully in the public square.
And that's all I've said, and that's all that Donald Trump has said.
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