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BumRushDaShow

(141,529 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:48 AM Oct 3

Pelosi: Vance's 'personal connection' during abortion debate discussion was 'clever' but 'isn't real'

Source: The Hill

10/02/24 8:05 PM ET


Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s (R) “personal connection” to reproductive rights during Tuesday’s vice presidential debate “clever,” but she said “it isn’t real,” stressing it doesn’t show clear support for women to make their own reproductive decisions.

“I think that that was clever to use that personal connection, but it isn’t real in terms of women having the right to make their own decisions and not politicians making their decisions for them,” Pelosi told host Dana Bash in an interview on CNN.

Bash had asked Pelosi what her response was to remarks made by Vance during the debate where the senator opened up about a woman he knew who had an abortion.

“I grew up in a working-class family in a neighborhood where I knew a lot of young women who had unplanned pregnancies and decided to terminate those pregnancies because they feel like they didn’t have any other options,” Vance said during the debate.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4912966-nancy-pelosi-jd-vance-reproductive-rights-vp-debate/

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jvill

(353 posts)
4. Wait, people actually believed this guy? That all these women were just like, "hey JD, I got an abortion! You?"
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 06:18 AM
Oct 3

On which planet did that happen?

robbob

(3,633 posts)
5. That's classic; he talks about a lack of "options"
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 08:18 AM
Oct 3

while planning to take options away. Doublespeak at its finest.

niyad

(119,613 posts)
6. BULLSHIT!! That entire sentence is BULLSHIT. "I grew up. . a LOT of young
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 08:25 AM
Oct 3

women. . ." BULLSHIT!!! BULLSHIT!!! BULLSHIT!!! First off, pedantically, it is "many", not 'a lot of", you lying piece of filth. Second, there are not "many"abortions in a single neighborhood. Third, you cannot seriously expect us to believe that all those many young women were confiding in you, you misogynistic, patriarchal, woman-hating creep.

FakeNoose

(35,536 posts)
10. He doesn't seem like the type of sympathetic person who would inspire trust
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 04:00 PM
Oct 4

... from any young woman who happened to be in trouble and needed an abortion. It seemed like a fake, contrived story to me. Naturally if that ever did happen, he wouldn't want to name the individual. But it doesn't seem likely.

frogstar0

(117 posts)
7. Really? A lot of women told him?
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 09:23 AM
Oct 3

Anyone who believes any women told him anything about their abortion is not living in the real world. This is just the same as Donny’s “People are saying” or “A big strong man, crying ….” Complete BS.

applegrove

(122,970 posts)
9. He innoculated himself from his previous statement that
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 01:51 AM
Oct 4

'women should stay married in abusive relationships' with that story of his friend in the debate. So it was a twofer in terms of making women feel he is not as weird as he is on women's rights to health and happiness.

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