Highlights from the Vance-Walz vice presidential debate

Both men on stage shared personal stories of women to answer questions about how their administration would handle abortion.

Walz spoke about Amanda Zurwaski, a Texas woman who was denied an abortion despite developing a life-threatening infection, and Hadley Duval, who was 12 when she was raped and made pregnant by her step- father. He also suggested that Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who reportedly died in 2022 after waiting hours in the emergency room to treat her complications from taking abortion pills, would have died.

Walz pointed to Minnesota law that protects the right to abortion, saying, “There’s a good chance that if Amber Thurman had lived in Minnesota, she would be alive today.” »

Vance, meanwhile, appeared to soften some of his views on abortion on the debate stage. The vice presidential candidate said that growing up in Middletown, Ohio, he knew many women who had unplanned pregnancies and opted for abortion.

A close friend, Vance said, “said something to me a few years ago that said if she hadn’t had an abortion it would have destroyed her life because she was in an abusive relationship. »

Vance said he wants Republicans to provide “more options” for women to raise a family.