Meghan McCain slammed Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance for his “un-Christian” comment that women who do not have kids are “childless cat ladies.”
“I have been trying to warn every conservative man I know — these JD comments are activating women across all sides, including my most conservative Trump supporting friends,” the former “The View” co-host, 39, wrote on X Thursday.
“These comments have caused real pain and are just innately unchristian. This is not who we are,” she added.
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McCain’s response comes after a 2021 clip of Vance, also 39, resurfaced. During an interview, the then-GOP Ohio Senate candidate slammed women who did not have children but had high positions in the US.
“We’re 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’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” Vance, who is now Donald Trump’s running mate, said at the time.
“You look at Kamala Harris … the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children, and how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
The “Hillbilly Elegy” author’s viral comments were not well-received by many, including actress Jennifer Aniston, who does not have any children.
“I truly can’t believe this is coming from a potential VP of The United States,” the “Friends” star, 55, wrote on her Instagram Stories Wednesday.
“All I can say is … Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day,” she added.
Aniston, who has been candid about her struggles with IVF treatments when she tried to start a family years ago, said she hopes Vance’s 2-year-old daughter, Mirabel, “will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.”
Harris, 59, was also lauded by her husband Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife, Kerstin Emhoff, for being a great stepparent to her two children, Cole, 29, and Ella, 25.
“For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I,” Kerstin, 57, told CNN Wednesday.
“She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective and always present,” she continued. “I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.”
