Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator JD Vance confirmed to reporters on Saturday that former President Donald Trump is “consistent” in his views. Funding for Planned Parenthood.
A reporter asked Vance, R-Ohio, whether the incoming Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood, a reproductive health group that has drawn opposition from many conservatives over its stance on abortion rights.
“When it comes to defunding Planned Parenthood, look, my view is that we don’t think taxpayers should be funding late-term abortions,” Vance said after Trump At the Butler, Pennsylvania rally. “This was the first consistent look at the Trump campaign. It will remain a consistent look.”
In 2021, 93.5% of abortions were performed at or before 13 weeks. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention he said this year. About 5.7% of abortions occurred between 14 and 20 weeks, and 0.9% occurred at or after 21 weeks.
The Trump campaign and Planned Parenthood did not immediately respond to requests for further comment Sunday night.
Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, condemned Vance’s comments, saying “a second Trump term is a huge risk to American women and their families.”
“The only way to stop the unchecked Trump and his MAGA allies from taking away the liberties of American women is to elect a Vice President Harris who will stand up for women’s access to health care and reproductive freedom,” Hitt continued.
Democrats have often pointed to Trump’s comments on abortion, saying he would seek to ban it.
In response, Trump tried to soften his stance on abortion in a post on social media on Tuesday. would veto federal abortion ban.
And former First Lady Melania Trump it is reported that it was discussed his take on abortion rights in his forthcoming memoir, with The Guardian reportsEng “Why should a woman have the power to determine what anyone but herself does with her body?”
“A woman’s basic personal freedom, her own life, gives her the right to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes,” he continued. NBC News has not independently confirmed the contents of the yet-to-be-published book.
Trump said in an interview with Fox News last week that he and his wife talked about it, and I said, ‘You have to write what you believe. I’m not going to tell you what to do. You have to write what you do. Believe.'”
Moment NBC News survey In September, 54% of registered voters thought Harris would do a better job on abortion, compared with 33% for Trump.
Vance acknowledged last week that voters lacked comparable trust in Republicans on abortion. vice presidential debate.
“I think that as a Republican who is proud to protect innocent life, who is proud to protect vulnerable people in this country, my party has to do a better job of making a profit. It’s getting the American people’s trust back on this issue, where they, frankly, just give us they don’t trust,” Vance said.
While Trump has tried to move toward the center on the issue on the campaign trail ahead of the November election, his administration has taken steps to limit access to the process.
He appointed his three Supreme Court nominees to the high court by suspending federal protections for due process in Roe v. He praised Wade for voting to repeal it.
“After 50 years of failure, after no one has come close, I’m in Roe v. I was able to kill Wade, it shocked everyone,” Trump wrote last year. Truth Sociala feeling she echoed on the campaign trail.
Planned Parenthood in 2019 X is out of the titlegovernment family planning program, after the Trump administration passed a rule barring clinics participating in the program from making referrals to abortion providers.
It was Planned Parenthood already prevented Although it refuses to use federal funds for abortions, anti-abortion rights groups argue that it is impossible for the government to verify that funds allocated to other services do not help subsidize abortion services.
President Joe Biden He canceled Trump’s ruleallows abortion clinics to once again receive federal funds.
In 2016, then-candidate Trump said in an argument He said he would end federal funding for Planned Parenthood and “repeal it because I’m pro-life.”