'Women are not stupid': Warren criticizes Vance after he says Trump would veto national abortion ban [View all]
Source: USA Today
Published 2:12 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2024 | Updated 2:13 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2024
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., criticized Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, on Sunday over his claim that former President Donald Trump would veto a federal abortion ban if elected president.
“American women are not stupid,” Warren said during an interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press." “We’re not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion.”
Vance, who is the GOP vice-presidential nominee, suggested earlier in the program that Trump would veto a federal abortion ban, stressing that Trump prefers to leave the issue to the states. “I think he would,” Vance said when asked if Trump would reject a nationwide ban. “He’s said that explicitly that he would.”
Warren, like many of the Republican ticket's critics, wasn't buying it. She argued that even if Trump doesn’t sign a federal ban, that the former president would still restrict abortion rights. Warren pointed to the Comstock Act, a century-old law banning the mailing of abortion-related materials, which some Republicans have hinted could be revived to restrict abortion nationwide.
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