Years before he became the Republican vice-presidential nominee, JD Vance endorsed a little-noticed 2017 report by the Heritage Foundation that proposed a sweeping conservative agenda to restrict sexual and reproductive freedoms and remake American families.
They praised the rapidly expanding number of state laws restricting abortion rights and access, saying that the procedure should become “unthinkable” in America.
And they cited hunger as a “great motivation” for Americans to find work.
Mr. Vance, then known as the author of a best-selling memoir, became a champion of the project.
He wrote the introduction and praised the volume as “admirable,” and was the keynote speaker at the public release of the report at Heritage’s offices in Washington.
The report was released just months after Donald J. Trump became president, as social conservatives were laying the foundation for an aggressive agenda restricting sexual freedom and reproductive rights.
Those policies became a hallmark of the Trump administration and Mr. Vance’s political career.
Taken together, the pieces in the report amount to an effort to instruct Americans on what their families should be, when to grow them and the best way to raise their children.
Authors argued in the 2017 report that women should become pregnant at younger ages and that a two-parent, heterosexual household was the “ideal” environment for children.
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JD Vance supported a little-known 2017 Heritage Foundation report that put forth a broad conservative agenda to curtail sexual and reproductive liberties and reshape American families, years before he was nominated by the Republican Party for vice president.
Conservative commentators, policy experts, community leaders, and Christian clergymen opposed the spread of in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments in a series of 29 essays, calling them harmful to women. Praiseing the swiftly growing number of state laws limiting access to and rights of abortion, they declared that the procedure ought to be rendered “unthinkable” in the United States. Additionally, they mentioned hunger as a “great motivation” for Americans to look for employment.
Hey, Mr. Vance, who was then well-known for writing a popular autobiography, started to support the initiative. At the public report release held at Heritage’s Washington, D.C. offices, he wrote the introduction, lauding the volume as “admirable,” and served as the keynote speaker.
The study was made public only a few months after Donald J. As social conservatives were setting the groundwork for an aggressive agenda that restricted women’s and men’s access to contraception, Trump was elected president. These measures came to define both Mr. Vance’s political career and the Trump administration.
When combined, the report’s components attempt to teach Americans about the ideal composition of families, the appropriate times to start them, and how to raise their kids. In the 2017 report, authors claimed that heterosexual, two-parent households were the “ideal” setting for children and that women should get pregnant at younger ages.
Conservative journalist Katrina Trinko described the “tragedy” of single mother babies in an essay, writing that “the ideal situation for any child is growing up with the mother and father who brought that child into the world.”.
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