Last week, Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, made headlines for implying that “suburban women” don’t care about abortion rights.

“What do you say to suburban women out there who are marinating in this propaganda?” Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked Vance, claiming that some women believe that abortion is banned nationally.

“Well, first of all, I don’t buy that, Laura,” Vance replied. “I think most suburban women care about the normal things that most Americans care about.”

The subtext being that such concerns don’t include abortion.

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Notably, these comments happened the same week release of a KFF poll told a different story. According to the poll, 53 percent of Republican women voters someway or strongly oppose leaving abortion rights up to the states, in addition to 86 percent of Democratic women. Seventy-three percent of independent women voters also polled that they opposed leaving abortion to the states. When looking at women in the suburbs and urban areas, 74 percent of urban and suburban women said they opposed leaving abortion rights to the states.

Brittni Frederiksen, one of the senior authors of the KFF poll and associate director for Women’s Health Policy at KFF, told Salon the survey polled over 4,000 women of reproductive ages, between 18 to 49. When asked if they’d ever had an abortion in their lifetime, one in seven said “yes.”

"Regardless of party ID, women may want or need an abortion at some point in their lifetime."

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