In response to JD Vance lying about the Trump-Vance ticket’s Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion nationwide, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“JD Vance will lie about anything if it helps Donald Trump get back into office and enact their Project 2025 plans to ban abortion nationwide – with or without Congress. Just like Trump, Vance owns his consistent anti-choice record and their extreme Project 2025 agenda that would use the 151-year old Comstock Act to rip away women’s freedoms across the country. Let’s be clear: no matter how they try to cover for their dangerous MAGA agenda, the Trump-Vance ticket stands for less freedom while Vice President Harris and Governor Walz have pledged to defend our fundamental rights.”

Vance tried to claim Trump would veto a national abortion ban…

Kristen Welker, NBC News: “[Trump] would veto a federal abortion ban?”

Vance: “I think he would.”

…but the Trump-Vance ticket’s Project 2025 plan would ban abortion nationwide without Congress…

Forbes: “JD Vance And Project 2025 Want To Use This 19th Century Law To Ban Abortion—Without Congress”

Washington Post: “Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills”

NBC News: “Trump signals openness to banning abortion pill”

New Republic: “On January 20, 2025, conservatives plan to resurrect a 150-year-old defunct law to ban abortion across the nation. This is not a secret plan—far from it. It’s part of the 180-Day Playbook produced by Project 2025, detailing priorities for an incoming conservative president on day one…

“The playbook says the president should enforce a 150-year-old law, the Comstock Act, which right-wing groups see as a way to ban abortion nationally because it outlaws the use of the mail for the purposes of sending or receiving any object that could be used for an abortion.”

…and both Vance and Trump have repeatedly expressed support for a national abortion ban.

CNN: “JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’”

“JD Vance said he ‘certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.”

Manu Raju, CNN: “J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation … ‘We can’t give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter,’ he told us.”

Associated Press: “Trump says he will support national ban on abortions around 15 weeks of pregnancy”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Wants to Ban Abortion Nationwide: Report”

New York Times: “Trump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week Abortion Ban”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Floats National Abortion Ban After Claiming He’s ‘On the Side of Women’”

Trump: “There of course remains a vital role for the federal government in protecting unborn life. And it’s very important.” 

Trump on if he would sign a six-week national abortion ban: “I’m looking at all options.”

Trump: “We’ll pick something that’s going to be very, very good for pro-life… I’m going to be in there pushing.”

REMINDER: Vance’s anti-choice record includes attacking exceptions for rape and incest, comparing abortion to slavery, voting against codifying IVF access nationwide, and more.

Washington Post: “Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance argues against need for rape and incest exceptions in abortion laws”

Daily Beast: “J.D. Vance suggested he would support prohibiting abortion even in cases of rape and incest—and dismissed those catalysts as ‘inconvenient.’”

Vice: “JD Vance Compared Abortion to Slavery”

The Hill: “[Vance] campaigned against Ohio’s 2023 ballot measure that guaranteed the right to abortion, and previously said he’d vote for a nationwide abortion ban at 15 weeks. 

“During his campaign for Senate, Vance applauded the overturning of Roe v. Wade and supported Texas’s ban on abortion, which does not allow exceptions other than cases where the mother’s life is at risk.  

“‘Two wrongs don’t make a right,’ he said in 2021 when asked whether abortion laws should allow for exceptions for rape and incest.” 

NBC News: “Senate Republicans block Democratic bill codifying Roe v. Wade abortion protections”

“Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked legislation led by Democrats to revive the protections of Roe v. Wade in the wake of the Supreme Court eliminating the nationwide right to abortion.”

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.

The Hill: “Senate Republicans block legislation to codify IVF access”

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.

Trump and Vance’s anti-choice Project 2025 agenda to rip away reproductive freedoms is wildly unpopular.

Semafor: “New polling shared exclusively with Semafor shows Democrats’ attacks on JD Vance’s views on abortion, divorce and ‘childless cat ladies’ are sticking with voters…

“…A 2021 interview with Spectrum News in which [Vance] defended a Texas abortion law’s lack of exceptions for rape and incest by suggesting pregnancies from such circumstances are ‘inconvenient.’ Sixty-two percent of voters said they were ‘bothered’ Vance used the word ‘inconvenient’ to describe pregnancies that stem from rape and incest with 50% reporting ‘it bothers me a lot.’”

USA Today: “Americans overwhelmingly oppose the next goal of many anti-abortion activists, to enact a federal law banning abortion nationwide. By 80%-14%, those surveyed opposed that idea, including 65% of Republicans and 83% of independents.”

Axios: “Record share of U.S. voters back abortion rights and will vote on it: Gallup”

NBC News: “Abortion rights have won in every election since Roe v. Wade was overturned”

Axios: “There’s widespread support for letting women obtain drugs for medication abortion from their doctor or a clinic, with 72% supporting — including half of Republicans.”