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Actress Jennifer Aniston has joined the fray in speaking out against Donald Trump\u2019s vice-presidential pick, JD Vance. Footage of Vance recently resurfaced of Vance speaking in 2021 and criticizing Democrats as anti-family. \u201cWe are 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\u2019ve made, and so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable, too,\u201d said Vance<\/a>. He cited Kamala Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the types of women he was referring to, women who have no biological children of their own.<\/p>\n

Aniston, who has no children of her own and has struggled with fertility issues, took umbrage at the comments. \u201cI was throwing everything at it. I would\u2019ve given anything if someone had said to me, \u2018Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.\u2019 You just don\u2019t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed,\u201d she said<\/a> in a previous interview about her battles with infertility. Addressing Vance\u2019s comments, Anniston pointed to Vance\u2019s 2-year-old daughter. \u201cAll I can say is\u2026 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vance addressed the statement, calling it \u201cdisgusting.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s disgusting because my daughter is 2 years old. And second of all, if she had fertility problems, as I said in that speech, I would try everything I could to try to help her because I believe families and babies are a good thing,\u201d he told Megyn Kelly on her show. Clips from the 2021 interview do not include when Vance specifically mentions he is speaking about women who choose not to have children, not those who struggle with infertility. \u201cThere are a whole host of people who don’t have children for a whole host of reasons, and they certainly are great people who can participate fully in the life of this country. So, this is not a criticism and was never a criticism of everybody without children. That is a lie of the left. It is a criticism of the increasingly anti-parents and anti-child attitude of the left,\u201d Vance said in another interview to clarify his comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also pointed to an interview where Kamala Harris encouraged others not to have children due to concerns about climate change. \u201cIf you look at what the American people are most concerned about, it’s not an out-of-context quip I made three years ago,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s the fact that Kamala Harris, the border czar, opened the American southern border. It’s the fact that the Democratic Party has become explicitly anti-family in some of their policies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actress Jennifer Aniston has joined the fray in speaking out against Donald Trump\u2019s vice-presidential pick, JD Vance. 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