The Ohio senator’s pro-IVF were clarified after actress Jennifer Aniston claimed he is “trying to take that away” from women.
Ohio Senator JD Vance’s views on in vitro fertilization (IVF) have since been clarified after actress Jennifer Aniston went after the Republican vice presidential nominee for his 2021 “childless cat ladies” comments this week.
On Thursday, Aniston, who has previously revealed her struggles with IVF, wrote on her Instagram Story, “Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day. I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.”
Newsweek has reached out to Aniston’s publicist via email for comment on Saturday afternoon.
The Friends star attached a post about comments Vance made while a U.S. Senate candidate on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight in July 2021 that resurfaced this week.
“We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too”, Vance said in the 2021 interview.
He continued: “And it’s just a basic fact, you look at Kamala Harris, [Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg, AOC [Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]. The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children, and how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
Newsweek reached out to Vance’s press office on Saturday afternoon, which referred to several of the pro-IVF statements the senator has given and legislation he has supported, which is mentioned below.
