Democratic Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Tuesday suggested that Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance should experience a family member becoming pregnant through rape.
While being interviewed on MSNBC, Beshear spoke of Vance referring to a pregnancy due to rape as being “inconvenient” and then suggested “make him go through it.”
These people feign compassion and “joy” and then turn around and wish rape on JD Vance’s wife and family? This is not just a slip of the tongue from a Harris surrogate. It’s revealing of how these people think. It’s an evil thing to say and Andy Beshear should be ashamed of… https://t.co/jHsixzmmkX
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 20, 2024
Vance immediately pushed back, asking, “What the hell is this? Why is @AndyBeshearKY wishing that a member of my family would get raped?!? What a disgusting person.”
Beshear was likely referring to a 2021 interview during which Vance, who was then running for the U.S. Senate, said that society shouldn’t reflexively view pregnancies due to rape or incest as “inconvenient.”
At that time, Vance stated:
“My view on this has been very clear and I think the question betrays a certain presumption that is wrong. It’s not whether a woman should be forced to bring a child to term, it’s whether a child should be allowed to live, even though the circumstances of that child’s birth are somehow inconvenient or a problem to the society. The question really, to me, is about the baby.”
Rape and incest are commonly cited as justification for abortion on demand, yet the vast majority of abortions have more to do with convenience.
A reminder than Rape and Incest are barely 1% of the reasons given for wanting an abortion.
74% of women get an abortion merely because having a baby would be “inconvenient” pic.twitter.com/dvxMQxSpHL
— Sensurround (@ShamashAran) August 20, 2024
Gov. Beshear’s remarks on the first night of the DNC in Chicago were primarily focused on abortion and reproductive rights.
Beshear also spoke of the “tolerance” of the Democratic Party, saying, “How we treat people transcends party lines. It goes right to the heart of who we are. I want anyone watching tonight — Republican, independent, Democrat — to know that you are welcome here.”
If wishing rape upon the families of his ideological opponents is what tolerance looks like, it would be interesting to see what Gov. Beshear is like when he’s being intolerant.
Conventional wisdom is that educated single white women are the core base of Dems. If that support is a complete as is supposed by pollsters & pundits, I have got to wonder how well Gov. Beshear’s ill-considered remarks will be received.
As an educated(not indoctrinated) married white woman who survived a sexual assault & had to make those contingency plans, who personally spent several weeks coming to terms with the idea that I might have to give birth to a child that was, literally, forced on me, I cannot adequately express the depth of my disgust at Beshear’s attempt to score political points. Particularly given that he did so with a despicable lie about the policy positions of the opposition.
That this soulless cog of a dysfunctional and morally bankrupt ideology felt free to make his comment and expected to receive nothing put praise for scoring a hit on the opposition underscores the stark choices this country faces in November. I hope women paid attention when Beshear told them what his party is.