The former First Lady of the USA, Melania Trump, is clearly in favor of the right to abortion, according to a media report. This is reported by the British newspaper Guardian, referring to Melania Trump’s memoirs, which are due to be published next week. In a key campaign issue, she is contradicting her husband Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate.
“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to decide what to do with her own body?”, the newspaper quotes from the book, which is being published next Tuesday. Restricting a woman’s right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body, says Melania Trump. She has held this belief her entire adult life.
Decision “without pressure from the government”
“A woman’s fundamental right to individual freedom and to her own life gives her the right to terminate her pregnancy if she so wishes,” she adds in her memoirs. Women must decide on their desire to have children based on their own convictions – without “pressure from the government,” says Melania Trump.
The statements quoted by the Guardian from an advance copy contradict those of her husband Donald Trump. The Republican presidential candidate wants to leave the decision on abortion law to the states.
He repeatedly reminds his supporters that his nomination of three conservative judges to the Supreme Court led to the abolition of the nationwide right to abortion in the USA after 50 years. Many states tightened their existing abortion laws following this Supreme Court decision.
Melania Trump adopts Harris’ position
His wife Melania now positions herself on this issue in a similar way to the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. The current vice president is a clear advocate of the right to abortion and is committed to reversing the decision to abolish it nationwide.
With just under a month to go before the US elections, the election campaign is in full swing. The right to abortion is a key issue. Harris described the nationwide abolition as a “health care crisis, and Donald Trump is the architect.” Donald Trump, on the other hand, is counting on a core of religious and conservative voters.
Trump says Biden’s exit from US presidential race was a ‘coup’
Trump and his wife test positive for coronavirus
House of Representatives remains with the Republicans
Trump wants Mike Waltz as security advisor
What Melania Trump is planning now
Election day flood disaster: Polling station workers dead