JD Vance accidentally revealed his stance on abortion bans.

The Ohio Senator admitted how he defines an abortion “ban” in an interview on MSNBC’s Meet the Press over the weekend, which abortion experts believe provided key insight into his purported position.

Although he started by saying that “no Republican with any reasonable power is saying that we should have a complete national ban,” he later suggested that Senator Lindsay Graham (SC-R) “has not advocated a federal abortion ban.”

Actually, Graham enacted a federal 15-week ban – which forces women to carry nonviable pregnancies to term – in his state of South Carolina following the Dobbs decision.

Vance called South Carolina’s law “a federal minimum standard,” a bait-and-switch in language that avoids outwardly admitting he supports a “ban.”

While Republicans consider a 15-week ban a “compromise,” medical experts have said it is not only “arbitrary” but also potentially dangerous.

This is because pregnant women typically get their ultrasounds at week 20, which is where any issues pertaining to the pregnancy will arise. As a result, a 15-week ban may force a woman to carry an unviable pregnancy to term.

Vance later claimed that Trump does not agree with Graham’s position on abortion.

Jessica Valenti, a feminist author who writes for a Substack’s Abortion Now, said in a Tuesday post that Vance’s carefully crafted language of federal “restrictions” or “standards” is a means to avoid admitting he supports a “ban,” which is a widely unpopular stance among the general public.

A Pew Research poll from May found that the majority (63%) believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases while 36% believe it should be illegal in all or most cases. The polling shows a divide based on religious and party affiliation.

After the Biden campaign pointed out Vance’s “100 percent pro-life stance” last month, he scrubbed his website, which explicitly stated his draconian desire to “eliminate abortion.”

Abortion access has been a central campaign issue for Democrats in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision in June 2022, which was made possible after Trump appointed conservative judges to the US Supreme Court.

Kamala Harris supports reinstating Roe v. Wade into law to federally protect reproductive care.

Earlier this week, Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt released a statement claiming Trump “will NOT sign a federal ban.” He has previously claimed he believes it should be left up to the states

Currently, 14 states have total bans and 27 have bans based on gestational duration, per The Guttmacher Institute.

Leavitt also claimed Trump “supports universal access to contraceptives,” although does not clarify what Trump defines as contraception. Vance also later went on to completely contradict Trump’s purported abortion pill stance.

Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social: “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.”

His post came after an interview with CBS News from earlier in the week, where he indicated he would not enact a 19th-century anti-obscenity law to restrict abortion pills, as some activists have suggested.

Conservative anti-abortion activists are reportedly irate that Trump has “softened” his stance on abortion, NPR reported this week.

Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice president who was nearly killed during the January 6th attack on the Capitol, shared Friday on X his statement for the National Review: “The former President’s use of the language of the Left, pledging that his administration would be ‘great for women and their reproductive rights’ should be concerning for millions of pro-life Americans.”