Family Research Council’s Washington Stand blog applauds JD Vance’s support for an extreme 15-week national abortion ban.
Family Research Council’s blog, The Washington Stand, published an article praising vice presidential nominee JD Vance for discussing the “entirely reasonable, and too-modest, pro-life protection” of a 15-week minimum national ban for abortion…
Family Research Center is on the advisory board of Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-led transition plan for the next GOP presidential administration….
During the October 1 debate, Vance argued that a GOP-proposed 15-week nationwide abortion ban is really a “federal minimum standard,” though it is entirely a distinction without a difference. Writing in Vanity Fair, Bess Levin notes this is part of “the very sneaky way” that some on the right have adopted to discuss rolling back reproductive rights:
As abortion rights advocate Jessica Valenti has written, “Republicans know abortion bans are deeply unpopular, so they’ve come up with this cheap rhetorical trick to fool voters,” wherein they claim not to support bans but “minimum standards.“ In this context, “ban” means no abortions at any time for any reason, whereas the latter could mean something like no abortions after six weeks—which, of course, would effectively be a ban on abortion.
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