Gabby Giffords 鈥�93 in her critique of Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance鈥檚 2021 remarks about the country being run by 鈥渃hildless cat ladies鈥iserable at their own lives.鈥� Vance has since echoed those remarks in an , saying the left has become explicitly anti-child and anti-family under presidential candidate Kamala Harris鈥檚 policies.
With Giffords鈥� husband, US Senator Mark Kelly, emerging as a running mate for Harris, the former Congresswoman took to X to note her family鈥檚 grief about ending their IVF journey after she survived a 2011 assassination attempt.
鈥淰ice President Kamala Harris is a proud mom of two remarkable stepchildren鈥攁nd 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.鈥�