Vance once endorsed conservative family agenda from Project 2025 authors

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy JD Vance, the right-wing Ohio Senator and Donald Trump’s running mate, once called a collection of essays from conservative individuals that touted anti-abortion, pro-heterosexuality, anti-affordable housing and pro-restrictive sexual freedom ideals “admirable.” In 2017, Vance wrote the introduction to a 106-page index published by The Heritage Foundation that advocated for conservative views that are noticeably reflected in its better-known document Project 2025. The document called the Index of Culture and Opportunity is a collection of roughly 30 essays from people – two of whom went on to help author Project 2025 – that advocate for a two-parent household of a mother and father, more church involvement, restricting access to abortion, women getting pregnant at a younger age, getting rid of government benefits like affordable housing or welfare and more. One section encourages states to draft laws that restrict access to abortion in any way they can and people to continue marching for life until abortion “has become unthinkable.” A spokesperson for Vance said in a statement, “Senator Vance has long made clear that he supports IVF and does not agree with every opinion in this seven-year-old report, which features a range of unique views from dozens of conservative thinkers. This conservative agenda laid out in 2017, which Vance praised, has the early markings of what would become Project 2025 – the Heritage Foundation’s proposed plan for the next Republican president to implement.