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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) at the vice presidential debate at CBS Studios on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City. (Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post via Getty Images)

By Roxanne Szal | Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz faced Sen. JD Vance of Ohio Tuesday night at the vice presidential debate, and day-after results are showing more or less a toss-up on who won among pundits.

Admittedly, Vance sounded coherent and slick. But much of what he said—especially on abortion, IVF and childcare—were lies, engineered for women to let their guards down and to distance himself from his extreme views, most of which are ripped right from Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership. Vance has stood consistently against abortion rights during his two-year political career—despite attempts Tuesday night to embody a congenial and reasonable version of conservatism.

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An abortion rights demonstration at Federal Courthouse Plaza in Austin, Texas, after the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022. (Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images)

By Bonnie Fuller | Kyleigh Thurman and Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz are the latest Texan women to file complaints or lawsuits after suffering harm to their reproductive health after the state enacted a near-total abortion ban.

“These women are examples of how scared, terrified and confused providers are even with the Texas law redefining that it’s legal that an ectopic pregnancy is a medical exception,” said Austin Dennard, a Dallas OB-GYN. Abortion bans in states like Texas are making doctors hesitate to provide life-saving care and “stealing the joy out of pregnancy,” she said.

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Vilés Dorsainvil (center), the executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, holds hands with U.S. pastors during a prayer in Springfield, Ohio, on Sept. 12, 2024. The small town has become the center of racist conspiracy theories targeting its Haitian immigrant community, leaving some in fear for their lives. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)

By Stephanie R. Toliver | From the presidential debate stage, Trump falsely claimed that immigrants were killing and eating pets, further fueling the anti-Black frenzy. Since then, he’s vowed to enact large-scale deportations of Haitian immigrants in an effort to cleanse the city of its supposed threats. Meanwhile, the real threat was not the Haitian immigrants but the Neo-Nazi hate group that marched through Springfield, hurling insults and curses at residents enjoying a blues music festival.

I fear that no matter the outcome of the election, the real winner will be anti-Blackness.

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