Live 2024 VP Debate: Fact checks and updates between JD Vance and Tim Walz face-off, hosted by CBS News and broadcast on ABC

Claim: Walz: “Your 2025 project will have a pregnancy registry.”
Fact check: Requires context

Walz has falsely claimed that Project 2025 would require pregnant women to register with a new federal agency that would monitor their pregnancies. While the Project 2025 policy proposal strongly opposes abortion, it does not call for monitoring of pregnancies. However, states are being asked to track abortions more carefully than current CDC rules require or face penalties such as cuts in federal funding.

Vance and Trump have also both said Project 2025 has nothing to do with their campaign.

However, it’s worth noting that Trump told Time magazine in April that states could decide to start monitoring pregnancies to prosecute illegal abortions, and said that the repeal of Roe v. Wade would relegate those decisions to the states returned.

“I think they could do that. Again, you’ll need to talk to individual states. You see, in Roe v. For Wade, it was about bringing it back to the states,” he told Time.

More broadly, the 2025 Project on Abortion calls for an end to FDA approval of mifepristone, a widely used abortion drug, and calls for the revival of a 150-year-old law that prohibits abortion machines from being shipped through the U.S. Postal Service. which would make access to healthcare significantly more difficult for women taking the drug legally.

In August, Trump signaled during a press conference at Mar-A-Lago that he was ready to revoke access to mifepristone when responding to a reporter’s question about whether he would direct the FDA to ban the drug. “You could do things that would be… complementary. In any case. And these things are pretty open and human,” Trump said, but also stressed at the conference that he wanted to give “everyone a voice” on the issue.

When asked to clarify those comments, Trump’s campaign pointed to the former president’s belief that abortion laws should be left to the states. The former president has also said he will not sign a federal abortion ban.