Pelosi: Vance's 'personal connection' during abortion debate discussion was 'clever' but 'isn't real'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

10/02/24 8:05 PM ET


Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s (R) “personal connection” to reproductive rights during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate “clever,” but she said “it isn’t real,” stressing it doesn’t show clear support for women to make their own reproductive decisions.

“I think that that was clever to use that personal connection, but it isn’t real in terms of women having the right to make their own decisions and not politicians making their decisions for them,” Pelosi told host Dana Bash in an interview on CNN.

Bash had asked Pelosi what her response was to remarks made by Vance during the debate where the senator opened up about a woman he knew who had an abortion.

“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,” Vance said during the debate.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4912966-nancy-pelosi-jd-vance-reproductive-rights-vp-debate/

[Walleye]

1. JD, how about minding your own damn business? What has a woman's pregnancy got to do with you?

[livetohike]

2. Yeah JD there are options. What we need is choice.

He didn’t talk about that.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Hillbilly Dracula

Eyeliner, fangs, deepset eyes, hideous laugh, sadism on parade. All the ingredients in place.

[jvill]

4. Wait, people actually believed this guy? That all these women were just like, "hey JD, I got an abortion! You?"

On which planet did that happen?

[niyad]

11. The planet Neverland.

[robbob]

5. That's classic; he talks about a lack of "options"

while planning to take options away. Doublespeak at its finest.

[niyad]

6. BULLSHIT!! That entire sentence is BULLSHIT. "I grew up. . a LOT of young

women. . ." BULLSHIT!!! BULLSHIT!!! BULLSHIT!!! First off, pedantically, it is "many", not 'a lot of", you lying piece of filth. Second, there are not "many"abortions in a single neighborhood. Third, you cannot seriously expect us to believe that all those many young women were confiding in you, you misogynistic, patriarchal, woman-hating creep.

[FakeNoose]

10. He doesn't seem like the type of sympathetic person who would inspire trust

... from any young woman who happened to be in trouble and needed an abortion. It seemed like a fake, contrived story to me. Naturally if that ever did happen, he wouldn't want to name the individual. But it doesn't seem likely.

[frogstar0]

7. Really? A lot of women told him?

Anyone who believes any women told him anything about their abortion is not living in the real world. This is just the same as Donny’s “People are saying” or “A big strong man, crying ….” Complete BS.

[republianmushroom]

8. He is a republican he will vote as the party dictates.

He may say a lot of things but he will not buck the party.

[applegrove]

9. He innoculated himself from his previous statement that

'women should stay married in abusive relationships' with that story of his friend in the debate. So it was a twofer in terms of making women feel he is not as weird as he is on women's rights to health and happiness.