Gabby Giffords ’93 in her critique of Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance’s 2021 remarks about the country being run by “childless cat ladies…miserable at their own lives.” Vance has since echoed those remarks in an , saying the left has become explicitly anti-child and anti-family under presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s policies.
With Giffords’ husband, US Senator Mark Kelly, emerging as a running mate for Harris, the former Congresswoman took to X to note her family’s grief about ending their IVF journey after she survived a 2011 assassination attempt.
“Vice President Kamala Harris is a proud mom of two remarkable stepchildren—and so am I. @CaptMarkKelly and I were trying to have a baby through IVF before I was shot and that dream was stolen from us. To suggest we are somehow lesser is disgraceful.”