Trump VP finalist JD Vance under scrutiny for past abortion comments

Past abortion remarks by Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, resurfaced online this week as he could potentially join former President Trump's 2024 ticket.

Vance, a former Trump critic who's since become a staunch ally of the 45th president, took heat from Democrats during his 2022 U.S. Senate campaign for statements that one fact-checker determined were taken out of context by his Democratic opponent, Tim Ryan. The old story popped up this week on Drudge Report, the famed news aggregator that once supported but later turned against Trump.

In 2021, Vance defended a Texas law that banned most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Asked by Spectrum News in Columbus, Ohio, at the time whether he supported abortion exceptions for cases of rape and incest, he disagreed with the question's premise and said "two wrongs don't make a right."

"At the end of day, we are talking about an unborn baby. What kind of society do we want to have? A society that looks at unborn babies as inconveniences to be discarded? … 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," Vance said.

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"The question to me is really about the baby," Vance added, according to the Washington Post. "We want women to have opportunities, we want women to have choices, but, above all, we want women and young boys in the womb to have a right to life."

During an Ohio Senate debate in 2022, Ryan accused Vance of saying rape was "inconvenient."

"J.D., you called rape ‘inconvenient.’ Right?" Ryan said. "Rape is not