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

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. BIDEN SAYS DNC ANTI-ISRAEL AGITATORS ‘HAVE A POINT,’ RIPS TRUMP AS ‘NOT WORTHY’ OF OVAL OFFICE Beshear made the comments while laying out the Trump and Harris campaign’s positions on abortion and “reproductive freedom.” 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. I mean, JD Vance calls pregnancy resulting from rape inconvenient. He continued, “Someone being violated, someone being harmed, and then telling them that they don’t have options after that. Continuing to ding former President Trump and Vance, he added, “It also shows they don’t have any empathy at all. PROTESTS ERUPT, CHICAGO BUSINESSES BOARD UP AS THE DNC KICKS OFF DAY 1 FESTIVITIES Vance blasted Beshear’s words on X, stating, “What the hell is this? William Martin, communications director for Vance, said in a statement, “After speaking on the DNC main stage last night, Harris campaign surrogate Governor Andy Beshear went on national television this morning and explicitly called for a member of Senator Vance’s family to be raped. We call on Kamala Harris to immediately repudiate Governor Beshear’s comments and demonstrate that regardless of partisan disagreements, this kind of violent rhetoric has no place in our public discourse.” Commentator Paul Szypula posted, “Beshear needs to apologize immediately.” The Daily Signal senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan replied to the clip of Beshear, stating, “This is actually a very common, very hateful leftist sentiment that I’ve heard repeatedly in different contexts. Later on MSNBC Tuesday, asked to respond to criticism of his comments, Beshear said he’d never wish harm on anyone and said any outrage about what he’d said was “deflection.” – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.foxnews.com/media/dem-kentucky-governor-fumes-jd-vances-rhetoric-pregnancies-rape-make-him-go-through