Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (Democrat) said late Thursday that Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (Ohio) “has zero empathy for the life experience of women in America.”
“J.D. Vance has demonstrated time and time again that he has little compassion for the lives of American women and that he reduces women to the lowest, most childish notions of humanity. I encourage everyone to discard and ignore his statements,” Abrams told MSNBC’s Alex Wagner. Her Show.
Abrams also criticized Vance for saying in 2021 that he was upset that “Stacey Abrams said a few years ago about Georgia’s abortion restrictions that it was a bad bill because it would hurt business.”
“When she opposes big corporations for passing abortion restrictions, when corporations want cheap labor and don’t want people to raise children, she’s right to say abortion restrictions are bad for business,” Vance said at the time.
In response, Abrams said late Thursday, “What I’m saying is that women should have the right to control their own bodies because that determines how they get an education, how they earn a living, whether they have a family. And when you support companies limiting that right, you’re making a terrible choice.”
Vance faced criticism three years ago when he said America was “run by childless, cat-loving women who are unhappy with their lives and the choices they make, and so they’re trying to make the whole country unhappy as well.”
Vance said last month that the “cat lady” comment was “sarcastic.”
“I know the media is attacking me and wanting me to back down on this, Meghan, but what I’m saying is, having a child, being a father, being a mother, it really does change the way you think in a pretty fundamental way,” Vance said on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
MSNBC’s Abrams also spoke about Vice President Harris’ campaign in Georgia, saying, “The vice president understands how important Georgia is.”
“She understands that just because it’s a battleground state doesn’t mean you automatically win or lose, and that you have to fight,” Abrams said, “and she believes this is a fight worth fighting.”
Harris is currently trailing former President Trump by 2.1 points in the Peach State, according to The Hill/Decision Desk average of Georgia polls, which has her approval rating at 45.9 percent, compared to Trump’s 48 percent.
The Hill has reached out to a spokesperson for Vance for comment on Abrams’ recent remarks.
