Many people seem to dislike Senator JD Vance (R – Ohio) these days, including Jennifer Aniston and Congressional Republicans. Maybe even Donald Trump. Vance’s native state of Ohio has now added hundreds of medical professionals to that list. On Tuesday, more that 260 doctors from Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights – a nonpartisan group of which members initiated and
Sen seems to be disliked by many people. JD Vance (R-Ohio ) these days: Jennifer Aniston, Congressional Republicans, and…maybe even Donald Trump? Now that list includes Ohio, home to hundreds of skilled professionals, according to Vance. More than 260 non-partisan Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights members, who helped draft the state’s ballot measure securing the right to abortion in Ohio next year, criticized Trump for choosing Vance as his running mate on Tuesday, citing Vance’s protracted anti-abortion record. A letter from the group —signed by physicians who practice a variety of specialties, not merely OB/GYNs who perform abortions, including pediatrics, family and domestic medicine, and child and adolescent psychology—outlined the dangers of what it calls “the Trump-Vance anti-reproductive freedom agenda. Ohio next year demonstrated to voters that people will not sit by politicians like J. D. Vance threaten our rights and freedoms, ” says the letter, which Mother Jones is the first to report. Millions of Americans nationwide will join us in vehemently declaring that we will never allow JD Vance to reclaim his rights this November. Trump’s campaign has evaded calls to define his position on abortion, an evasion tactic that has seen him have been vying for it from his appointment of three of the five Supreme Court justices who overruled Roe to Vance trying to backtrack on his earlier calls for a nationwide abortion ban. There are many reasons to think that the GOP would try to ban abortion nationwide if Trump were to win re-election, despite Trump’s efforts to keep his position on the Comstock Act and prenatal personhood. Vance cited several of these indicators and his support for them, such as: Project 2025, a campaign led by dozens of conservative groups and spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, that recommends the Department of Justice use the Comstock Act to prosecute providers who deliver abortion pills to patients ( Vance also went on record last year to say he was in favor of this proposal ); and, finally, recommand that the Department of Health and Human Services be replaced with a “Department of Life ” in order to reject the ” Vance’s prior comments against rape and incest exceptions for abortion bans, in which he dismissed those traumatic assaults as “inconveniences, ” adding, “ I think two wrongs don’t make a right. Trump, on the other hand, argues that there are exceptions for “rape, incest, and the life of the mother ” despite appointing three of the five Supreme Court justices who overruled Roe, allowing states to impose restrictions on abortion at their own discretion. ) Dr. According to the pediatrician who signed the letter and is the co-founder and senior director of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, Vance poses a greater threat to abortion rights than Trump because he has consistently vowed to support their legal system. ” “Both and JD Vance are huge risks [to abortion rights ], ” she added, “but the combination of the two is just terrible. ” The letter moreover pointed to Vance’s opposition to Ohio’s abortion rights ballot measure. After it passed in November, he called it a “gut punch…politically dumb and socially disgusting. Anti-abortion Republicans went to great lengths to stop the measure from passing last year, and from actually going up for a vote, as my coworkers Madison Pauly and Ari Berman noted next year. The letter notes that barriers to abortion access persist despite the measure’s passage being a big win for Ohioans because it allowed abortions up until the point of fetal viability and when needed to protect the patient’s life or health. D. Our patients ‘ access to essential and lifesaving reproductive healthcare is in serious danger as they prepare to run for president alongside Donald Trump. ” Plus, Beene added, “obstructionist laws ” remain on the books in the state—including a 24-hour waiting period mandated before obtaining an abortion, which is currently being challenged in court. Vance’s spokesperson William Martin, who was contacted for comment on the letter, told Mother Jones that he agreed with President Trump that state-level abortion policy should be decided. He added that Vance even “supports sensible exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.” Martin concluded,” These desperate smear tactics wo n’t change Kamala Harris ‘ record, which has been flopped on every possible level since she became the de facto nominee, aside from the failure and destruction of the current Administration.” In November, Ohio, the country’s wonderful state, and especially Ohio, will blatantly reject her fragile, failed, and extremely liberal agenda. According to poll after poll, most Americans disapprove of the Dobbs decision and support abortion access in all or most cases, prompting a common condemnation from hundreds of doctors over Vance’s anti-abortion views. As the letter states: “Vance’s extremist views are realistically out of touch with his own Ohio voters, and with the American people. ” Lots of people seem to dislike Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio ) these days: Jennifer Aniston, Congressional Republicans, and…maybe even Donald Trump? Now that list includes Ohio, home to hundreds of skilled professionals, according to Vance. More than 260 Ohio physicians from the non-partisan group Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights launched and shared their ideas on Tuesday.
Many people seem to dislike Senator JD Vance (R – Ohio) these days, including Jennifer Aniston and Congressional Republicans. Maybe even Donald Trump. Vance’s native state of Ohio has now added hundreds of medical professionals to that list. On Tuesday, more that 260 doctors from Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights – a nonpartisan group of which members initiated and
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