In an interview with Fox News that aired Monday, Usha Vance, the wife of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, downplayed her husband’s comment about “childless cat ladies” who “are miserable at their own lives” as merely “a quip” that’s been taken out of context.
She claimed JD Vance was somehow expressing sympathy for parents — a wild spin not supported by his actual comments — but didn’t elaborate.
“The reality is he made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive, and it had actual meaning,” she said. “And I just wish sometimes that people would talk about those things and that we would spend a lot less time just sort of going through this three-word phrase or that three-word phrase because what he was really saying is that it can be really hard to be a parent in this country.”
She added that “JD absolutely at the time and today would never, ever, ever want to say something to hurt someone who was trying to have a family who really, you know, was struggling with that.”
In June, JD Vance joined all 49 Senate Republicans to filibuster the Right to IVF Act, preventing legislation that would protect the right for individuals to receive in vitro fertilization from actually reaching the Senate floor.
JD Vance made his now-infamous remarks in a 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, describing top Democrats as “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.” He added that he thinks such a person has no “direct stake” in America’s future.
JD Vance’s attempts to spin the comments afterward only made it worse.
In an interview on SiriusXM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the Ohio Republican said he was being sarcastic and that he’s “got nothing against cats.”
People without children, both by choice and not, immediately took umbrage at the comment. “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston, who has been public about her fertility struggles, including IVF, blasted JD Vance on social media after.
“We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child,” she wrote. “We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies.”
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