The clip itself is from a 2022 segment of a podcast hosted by Australian commentator Aimee Terese (who has called for putting "misogynists back in the Oval Office" and who has come out against "normalizing consent"). In the interview, Vance suggested that supporters of abortion are doing so in order to drive down Black birthrates — a popular conspiracy theory among the far right.

"“Let’s say Roe vs. Wade is overruled, Ohio bans abortion, you know, in 2022, let’s say 2024, and then every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California,” said Vance, who at the time was running in Ohio's Republican U.S. Senate primary. “Of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity... that’s kind of creepy, right?”

"“If that happens, do you need some federal response to prevent it from happening because it’s really creepy.” he continued. “And, you know, I’m pretty sympathetic to that, actually.”

In her statement, Harris slammed Vance's comments and likened his proposal to other Republican efforts around the country to ban abortion and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.

"JD Vance's obsession with controlling women's most personal health care decisions, from voting against protecting access to IVF, to advocating for tracking women's menstrual cycles, to calling for a national abortion ban to bar women from traveling to access the care they need, isn't just bad policy - it's creepy, it's unacceptable, and voters won't stand for it," she said.

The vice presidential hopeful has also had to recently walk back comments he made complaining that "childless cat ladies" are secretly running the government, and was lambasted on social media for apologizing to cats but not to women. Meghan McCain — the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) tweeted Thursday that the Ohio senator's remarks about women will cost the GOP politically in November.

"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," she wrote. "These comments have caused real pain and are just innately unchristian."