Dem Kentucky governor fumes at JD Vance's rhetoric about pregnancies from rape: 'Make him go through this'

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sparked an outcry on Tuesday when he appeared to suggest GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, should experience a rape-induced pregnancy.

Beshear expressed outrage to "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski over Vance supposedly calling pregnancy from rape an "inconvenience," repeating a Democratic attack that was fact-checked as out of context when it was leveled by Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan during his Senate race against Vance in 2022.

"Make him go through this," the governor stated.

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Beshear made the comments while laying out the Trump and Harris campaign’s positions on abortion and "reproductive freedom." He told the anchor that "empowering people to make their own decisions" was "front and center" at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.

Beshear targeted what he called "extreme" abortion laws that have been enacted in various red states following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that overturned Roe V. Wade in 2022, and slammed the GOP's attacks that Democratic lawmakers support abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

"It’s just fear tactics and it’s just lying to people," he told the anchor. He then targeted Vance specifically.

"I mean, think about what some people have had to go through because of these