Ohio GOP Senate Candidate J.D. Vance’s August viral video in which he suggests children would prefer that parents remain in violent marriages comes under fire in a new ad supporting his opponent, Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan.
Another ad from the same source similarly challenged an Ohio Republican’s record on women’s issues by focusing on Governor Mike DeWine’s refusal to state whether he supports forcing children to have their rapists’ offspring in light of an incident this past summer when a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim had to seek abortion care in another state.
Vance earned the ire of women’s rights advocates in August when a video surfaced of an appearance at Pacifica Christian High School in September 2021 during which he chastised modern couples who see divorce as an easy out to chaotic marriages, even when marked by violence. According to Vance, “This is one of the great tricks that I think the sexual revolution pulled on the American populace, which is the idea that like, ‘well, OK, these marriages were fundamentally, you know, they were maybe even violent, but certainly they were unhappy. And so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that’s going to make people happier in the long term.”
In other words, because Vance, a victim of such violence himself, has a religious belief that marriage is sacred and because divorce can have an emotional impact on children, he would have couples stay trapped in violent marriages “for the good of the kids.”
When later called out on the issue by a reporter from Vice News, he chose to attack the reporter by distorting his original meaning and instead blaming liberals and the sexual revolution for a rise in domestic violence.
Vance’s other opinions unpopular with women and the majority of America include his desire to ban abortion with no exceptions for rape and incest, his referring to rape as an “inconvenience,” and his animosity toward childless Americans coupled with his support for Hungarian dictator and Republican darling Viktor Orbán.
The right’s concerns about birth and children have been recognized as having its roots in white supremacy, as expressed in Ben Wattenberg’s infamous book The Birth Dearth, which bemoans the loss of a white majority in the U.S. and proposes as the remedy the banning of abortion. Forcing white women to have children would increase the number of whites in the U.S.
Also highlighted in the video are six Ohio Republicans who voted against the Violence Against Women Act in 2021 because they wanted to allow abusers to keep their guns. Below are links to the Democrats running against them, candidates who believe that women's safety is more important than a violent spouse's ability to keep his guns.
Tim Ryan's site: https://timforoh.com/
The seven Republicans who voted against the Violence Against Women Act and links to the campaign sights for their Democratic challengers.
First District:
Republican Steve Chabot's opponent is Democrat Greg Landsman
https://www.landsmanforcongress.com/
Fourth District
Republican Jim Jordan's Democratic opponent is Tamie Wilson:
https://www.tamiewilson.com/
Fifth District
Republican Robert Latta's Democratic opponent is Craig Swartz:
https://www.swartzforohio.com/
Sixth District
Republican Bill Johnson's Democratic opponent is Lou Lyras:
https://www.louislyras.com/
Seventh District
Republican Bob Gibbs is retiring. The Democrat competing for his seat is Matthew Diemer: https://diemerforcongress.com/
Eighth District
Republican Warren Davidson's opponent is Democrat Vanessa Enoch
https://enochforcongress.com/
Tenth District
Republican Michael Turner's Democratic opponent is David Esrati:
https://electesrati.com/
Photo credit: “J. D. Vance speaking with attendees at the 2021 Southwest Regional Conference hosted by Turning Point USA at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix, Arizona.”
Photographer: Gage Skidmore
License notice: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Date 17 April 2021, 10:54
Source JD Vance
Author Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America
link: https://flickr.com/photos/22007612@N05/51128031851