Former President Donald Trump selected pro-life Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election.
“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump said.
Trump said Vance “will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond.”
“When I made this decision, I knew it had to be someone who could step in and serve as your Commander-in-Chief,” Trump continued.
Vance has a solid 100% pro-life voting record as a senator from the Buckeye State and has frequently spoken out in favor of the pro-life cause. But recent comments he made supporting the abortion pill have caused him to fall out of favor with pro-life Americans.
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One leading pro-life advocate has praised the Vance selection.
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser told LifeNews:
“J.D. Vance is an exceptional selection as President Trump’s running mate. His courage in exposing the Democrats’ agenda of abortion for any reason, even in the seventh, eighth, or ninth month, helped propel him to a decisive victory in the 2022 midterm elections. Vance’s hardscrabble upbringing informs his compassionate approach to this issue. His ability to compellingly share these stories on a national stage will surely be an asset. During his time in the Senate, he has earned an A+ on our Scorecard. With approximately 750,000 babies in states like California and New York still lacking basic protections, we need champions whose boldness will not waver.
“Now through Election Day, the pro-life movement’s mission must be to defeat the Biden-Harris extreme abortion agenda. With Vance on the ticket, we are more committed than ever in our efforts to deliver the winning pro-life message to 10 million voters, with four million visits to the homes of voters in key battleground states.”
Before his recent controversial comments, Vance had been solidly in the pro-life camp — urging people late last year to keep fighting to save babies from abortions.
“Giving up on the unborn is not an option. It’s politically dumb and morally repugnant. Instead, we need to understand why we lost this battle so we can win the war,” he said.
Vance could have earned Trump’s trust with his comments about the need for exceptions to the pro-life positon.
Third, as Donald Trump has said, “you’ve got to have the exceptions.” I am as pro life as anyone, and I want to save as many babies as possible. This is not about moral legitimacy but political reality. I’ve seen dozens of good polls on the abortion question in the last few months, many of them done in Ohio. Give people a choice between abortion restrictions very early in pregnancy with exceptions, or the pro choice position, and the pro life view has a fighting chance. Give people a heartbeat bill with no exceptions and it loses 65-35. (The reason we didn’t lose 65-35 last night is that some people who hate “no exceptions” restrictions will still refuse to vote for things like Issue 1).
