While Donald Trump is running an anti-abortion presidential campaign and appointed three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, Melania Trump has proudly professed her support for abortion and a woman’s right to choose in her forthcoming memoir, The Guardian is reporting. The former first lady made the extraordinary declaration in her memoir, “Melania,” which is to be published next Tuesday.
Portions of the memoir were obtained . “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” the wife of the Republican nominee wrote, amid a presidential campaign in which her husband’s threats to women’s reproductive rights have played a central role. “Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body?” Melania Trump also wrote.
“A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.” “Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body,” Melania Trump continued. “I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.
” Melania Trump has not been much of a presence during her husband’s presidential campaign, and she has rarely expressed her political views in public,.
