As JD Vance continues to double down on his dangerous attacks on women and families, DNC Spokesperson Aida Ross released the following statement: 

“JD Vance thinks Americans without children should have less of a voice in our democracy, wants to ban abortion nationwide while allowing law enforcement agencies to have access to women’s medical records, believes women should stay in violent marriages, and the list goes on. Just like Donald Trump, Vance wants to strip women and families of their rights while spewing hateful, creepy, and downright weird comments that he continues to double down on in the face of widespread backlash. The Trump-Vance ticket is as off-putting as it is dangerous, and the American people won’t stand for any of it this November.”

JD Vance wants law enforcement to have access to women’s medical records.

Letter Signed by Vance and Other Members of Congress: “Abortion is not health care—it is a brutal act that destroys the life of an unborn child and hurts women. Congress did not authorize HHS to extend special provisions for abortion such as these under the guise of ‘health care.’ The Proposed Rule unlawfully thwarts the enforcement of compassionate laws protecting unborn children and their mothers, and directs health care providers to defy lawful court orders and search warrants.”

Vance suggested women should stay in violent marriages.

Vance: “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.’”

Vice: “JD Vance Suggests People in ‘Violent’ Marriages Shouldn’t Get Divorced”

Vance has repeatedly attacked and disparaged Americans who don’t have children, and wants to undermine their role in our democracy.

Pat Rynard, Courier Newsroom: “JD Vance says Americans without children should ‘face the consequences and the reality’ and not get ‘nearly the same voice’ in democracy”

The Federalist: “J.D. Vance, a U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, called out the ‘childless left’ whom he said have ‘no physical commitment to the future of this country’ in a fiery speech given to the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s conference on the Future of American Political Economy…

“‘Why is this just a normal fact of …  life, for the leaders of our country to be people who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?’

“‘The Democrats are talking about giving the vote to 16-year-olds,’ Vance noted. ‘Let’s do this instead. Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of the children.’ He continued, asking, ‘Doesn’t this mean that nonparents don’t have as much of a voice as parents? Doesn’t this mean that parents get a bigger say in how democracy functions?’ He answered with a simple ‘yes’ after saying ‘the Atlantic and the Washington Post and all the usual suspects’ would criticize him.”

ABC News: “[Vance] suggested that the country needed to ‘reward the things that we think are good’ and ‘punish the things that we think are bad’ — before suggesting that individuals without children should be taxed at a higher rate than those with children.

Vance somehow also thinks that policies that support families and child care are a “war against normal people.”

Vance: “‘Universal day care’ is class war against normal people.”

Vance: “It turns out that normal Americans care more about their families than their jobs, and want a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force.”