In overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court didn’t so much settle America’s long-running fight over abortion as push the battle to states. The court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization repealed constitutional and thus nationwide protections for abortions that had been in place since 1973.
Former first lady Melania Trump said in a new video posted Thursday that she believed there was “no room for compromise” when it comes to a woman’s “individual freedom,” after The Guardian reported excerpts from her forthcoming book in which she says she supports abortion rights “free from any intervention or pressure from the government.
The former first lady’s revelation is hard to square, given her husband’s singular role in rolling back a right she calls essential to women “from birth.”
As Donald Trump tries to muddy his anti-abortion position, his wife released a video calling “individual freedom” an “essential right that all women possess,” asking, “What does my body, my choice really mean?
In a video promoting her memoir, the former first lady said there was “no room for compromise” on a woman’s right to “individual freedom."
Here is where Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump stand on a federal ban, the Supreme Court and other issues related to abortion.
"I think she hates him," Sunny Hostin said. "I also think she wants to take him out." New reports about former First Lady Melania Trump's stance on abortion rights had The View table all riled up on Thursday morning.
“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.” —Melania Trump, in her forthcoming memoir
Melania Trump has famously taken a very backseat role in her political family, to the point where you wonder if she’s even in the car at this point. But the former First Lady is finding her voice at a very convenient time,
Former first lady Melania Trump released a video expressing her support for abortion rights and teasing her forthcoming memoir, in which she reportedly describes being a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body.
In her upcoming memoir, 'Melania,' the former first lady reportedly shares a contrasting stance on abortion from her husband, former President Donald Trump