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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance said he expects Donald Trump would veto a federal abortion ban as president should one land on his desk.
“I think he would. He said that explicitly that he would,” the Ohio senator told host Kristen Welker in an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Trump’s position on abortion has disappointed anti-abortion advocates at times. On Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social: “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights,” a remark that drew criticism from some activists who viewed it as not particularly helpful to their cause.
Democrats, on the other hand, have continued to paint Trump as a threat not only to legal abortion but also the use of contraception and other matters they regard as entirely private. “He and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress,” Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris said in her acceptance speech Thursday.
In response to a series of questions from Welker, Vance said Trump’s position is that the states need to have control over the issue, rather than the federal government.
“If California wants to have a different abortion policy from Ohio,” Vance said, “then Ohio has to respect California, and California has to respect Ohio. 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.”
During the wide-ranging interview, Vance also said his much-mocked comment from 2021 about “childless cat ladies” was not something he regrets.
“I’m going to say things from time to time that people disagree with,” Vance told. “I’m a real person. I’m going to make jokes, I’m going to say things sarcastically.”
He added: “I have a lot of regrets, Kristen, but making a joke three years ago is not at the top 10 of the list.”
