The Biden campaign has sought to remind voters of comments Vance made in 2021, when he was asked whether abortion laws should include exceptions for rape and incest, and answered that “two wrongs don’t make a right.” In 2022, during a debate in the Senate race, Vance said he does believe in “reasonable exceptions.” After the passage of Issue 1 in Ohio, Vance wrote in a post, “as Donald Trump has said, ‘you’ve got to have the exceptions.’ … This is not about moral legitimacy but political reality.” In that same debate, Vance said he was “totally fine” with “some minimum national standard” to restrict abortion after a certain number of weeks, though he did not specify how many.
