In response to JD Vance saying GOP threats to rip away IVF access are “a ridiculous hypothetical” despite voting against protecting access to IVF nationwide, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“Threats to IVF access are not ‘hypothetical,’ they are a horrifying reality for Americans across the country because Donald Trump overturned Roe v. Wade. JD Vance is just trying to cover for being part of the problem: He voted two months ago to block legislation to protect IVF access nationwide, has celebrated Trump’s ending of Roe, and he and Trump have a dangerous Project 2025 agenda to ban abortion nationwide. Trump and Vance share the same extreme and unpopular anti-choice records and have proven they cannot be trusted to fight for Americans’ freedoms.”

LIE: JD Vance said GOP threats to rip away IVF access are “a ridiculous hypothetical.”

Vance on the possibility of MAGA Republicans ripping away access to IVF: “I think it’s such a ridiculous hypothetical.” 

REALITY: IVF access is at risk because of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans like Vance; Vance has spoken out against and voted to block legislation to protect IVF access while celebrating Trump’s ending of Roe v. Wade that paved the way for threats to IVF access.

Catherine Rampell, Washington Post Opinion: “On CNN w @JohnBerman, Vance claimed that after an Alabama court ruling threatened IVF, the state legislature fixed the problem right away. But they didn’t actually fix the issue. Alabama IVF/fertility clinics are closing due to ongoing legal liability”

New York Times: “[The Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF was] made possible by the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in its 2022 Dobbs decision, which was a result of Mr. Trump’s appointment of three justices.”

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

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.

Vanity Fair: “On Wednesday, Senate Republicans are expected to object to Tammy Duckworth’s Right to Build Families Act, because, surprise: They don’t actually care about families and aren’t ‘pro-life.’

“‘It’s idiotic for us to take the bait,’ Senator JD Vance told Politico, as though the measure were some kind of political trap. (He also noted that he had not actually read the bill yet.)”

Vance: “I think that what I really think on – so first of all, the Dobbs decision, everybody knows, overruled Roe v. Wade – I think that was the right decision.”

Trump paved the way for GOP threats to IVF access in Alabama, and his extreme anti-choice allies — including the Project 2025 groups his campaign is already collaborating with — are pushing to gut IVF access. 

CNN: “How the reversal of Roe v. Wade led to the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children”

HuffPost: “Donald Trump Has Deep Ties To Anti-IVF Movement”

“Like many Republicans, Trump’s words of support don’t align with his past actions on IVF. The current Republican presidential nominee ― who has repeatedly bragged about his role in repealing federal abortion protections ― has deep ties to extreme right-wing organizations that actively oppose IVF.

“While in the White House, Trump and his administration praised, appointed and worked with some of the nation’s most extreme thought leaders who believe the IVF process is akin to murder. Trump hosted the Alabama Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the IVF ruling twice: once during his 2016 campaign and in 2018 at the White House. (This is the same chief justice who recently appeared on a QAnon conspiracist’s show.)”

Politico: “Anti-abortion advocates worked for five decades to topple Roe v. Wade. They’re now laying the groundwork for a yearslong fight to curb in vitro fertilization.

“Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last month that frozen embryos are children, the Heritage Foundation and other conservative groups have been strategizing how to convince not just GOP officials but evangelicals broadly that they should have serious moral concerns about fertility treatments like IVF and that access to them should be curtailed.”

Axios: “[Project 2025] is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025. One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration.”

Both Trump and Vance want to ban abortion nationwide and have celebrated cruel abortion bans across the country.

Trump: “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade, much to the ‘shock’ of everyone… Without me there would be no 6 weeks, 10 weeks, 15 weeks, or whatever is finally agreed to. Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing. Thank you President TRUMP!!!”

Rolling Stone: “Trump Claims Credit for All Abortion Bans”

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

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.”

Vance: “Ohio has a heartbeat bill [banning abortion before many women know they’re pregnant], I think that’s a good bill.”

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

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.”

Newsweek: “J.D. Vance Backs ‘National Standard’ for Abortions”

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

Republicans who voted against include: JD Vance.

FACT: The majority of Americans overwhelmingly reject the Trump-Vance agenda to rip away women’s freedoms and threaten access to IVF. 

ABC News: “Americans continue to support IVF and abortion access”

“The vast majority of registered voters, 80 percent, think IVF should be legal.”

Navigator Research: “Large majorities say reproductive care like birth control pills and IVF should be made easier to access, including majorities of Republicans. … Americans across party lines also say access to fertility planning like IVF should be easier to access, including 72 percent of Democrats, 59 percent of independents, and 53 percent of Republicans.”