WATCH: On abortion, Vance says states should make their own rules | CBS Vice Presidential Debate

Ohio Sen. JD Vance denied Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s claim during the vice presidential debate that the Trump administration will create a federal pregnancy monitoring agency.

Vance then told a personal story about a young woman he said was “very dear” to him and who told him several years ago that “she felt like if she hadn’t had that abortion, that it would have destroyed her life because she was in an abusive relationship.”

“I think that what I take from that as a Republican who proudly wants to protect innocent life in this country, who proudly wants to protect the vulnerable, is that my party, we've got to do so much better of a job at earning the American people's trust back on this issue where they frankly just don't trust us,” Vance said.

He expressed his support for fertility treatments as well as lowering costs of child care and housing for young families, but said states should be able to make their own individual abortion policies.

“I think that's what makes the most sense in a very big, very diverse, and let's be honest, sometimes a very, very messy and divided country,” Vance said.

With just more than a month to go before Election Day, Vance and Walz met for their first and only vice presidential debate on Oct. 1, hosted by CBS in New York.

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