Understanding just how skillfully JD Vance handled the abortion question

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-04 15:31:04 | Updated at 2024-10-04 17:14:17 1 hour ago

Understanding just how skillfully JD Vance handled the abortion question
American Thinker ^ | 10/04/2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 10/04/2024 8:14:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

I am a very big fan of the podcasters at the Daily Wire: Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan. I don’t agree with them on everything, but I enjoy their intelligent takes and humor. They and I agree that JD Vance did a wonderful job during the vice-presidential debate, but they all missed how well he did on the abortion issue.

When Walz was asked about abortion, he launched easily into the shtick that it’s all about women’s healthcare while boasting about what a wonderful state Minnesota is for abortion. He had to lie, of course, about the law he signed, which does allow abortion up to and including birth. Nor would he admit that the law removed the obligation to save infants born alive after botched abortions. To date, at least eight infants have been left to die.

What pro-life conservatives expected to hear from JD Vance, who is himself a pro-life conservative, was a full-throated defense of life and a legalistic analysis of how the Dobbs decision works. They didn’t get it. Ben Shapiro sums up the resulting disappointment:

Ben is right that JD did none of that. Instead, JD focused on supporting women. This was an incredibly smart move on his part (as is Melania coming out in favor of abortion).

CBS framed this debate for women...specifically, for suburban women who know (as do all Americans) that things are awful and who also know that, on the pivotal, day-to-day matters (the economy, the border, national security, etc.), Trump is the better candidate. The only way to grab these women is through abortion, which most see as the ultimate women’s issue. It’s been a sure winner for the Democrats for decades now.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Minnesota; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: abortion; andreawidburg; andrewklavan; benshapiro; california; debate; dobbsdecision; jdvance; kamalaharris; mattwalsh; michaelknowles; minnesota; ohio; plannedparenthood; righttolife; roevswade; timwalz

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There was no way in a two-minute debate response that Vance could convince suburban women that they’re wrong on abortion. Touching it would have been deadly.

He rightly recognized that the reason that abortion matters so much to these women is that, whether they’ve had a baby or been around babies, they viscerally understand the most pivotal thing about pregnancy and motherhood: Your body and life are no longer your own. Unless you’re a psychopath or someone destroyed by substance abuse, from the moment you become pregnant, your body belongs to the baby and from the moment the baby is born, your life belongs to that child.

It’s always been this way, of course, since time immemorial. However, before modern times, women couldn’t stop the process. They had to yield to it, with good grace or ill. Nowadays, though, they can stop the process. Therefore, they must be persuaded that motherhood isn’t just a choice, it’s a good choice and one, moreover, that won’t destroy their lives but will enhance them.

Watch his response here:

https://youtu.be/g7de5wG8JOs

1 posted on 10/04/2024 8:14:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

2 posted on 10/04/2024 8:18:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

To: SeekAndFind

Trump, Vance, whomever are trying to impress everyone will never speak bluntly. Calling it baby-killing is not how you win elections. Good Politians have to be everything to everyone and especially have to contend with being portrayed meanies.
Same with us good folks as we are trying to win over folks to our good side. We can influence the perspective such as never, never referring to a pregnant woman as a “Mother-to-be.” What is she pregnant with but a baby? Thusly she IS a Mother. Try that sometime and you will see the brightest light bulbs going off.
For those who are either ignorant, stupid, or just evil, I’ll correct the term “Abortion” to “Baby-killing” immediately and forcefully. Blunt truth!!!

3 posted on 10/04/2024 8:22:47 AM PDT by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)

To: SeekAndFind

Abortion = women’s healthcare. What about the baby’s healthcare?

4 posted on 10/04/2024 8:29:49 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)

To: SeekAndFind

5 posted on 10/04/2024 8:30:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Kamala: "understand that some people need more, so we all end up in the same place, right?”)

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