Melania Trump writes in her upcoming memoir that women have the right to an abortion, the British newspaper The Guardian reported on Wednesday, while her husband Donald Trump supports the right of the American federal states to limit termination. she will be pregnant. “Why should anyone but the woman herself have the power to make decisions about what she does with her body?” wrote Melania Trump in her memoirs, which will be published four weeks before the US presidential election. elections on November 5, in which her husband is running against Democrat Kamala Harris.
“Limiting a woman’s right to decide to end an unwanted pregnancy is the same as taking away control over her own body. I have held this belief throughout my adult life,” she wrote in her memoirs, according to Guardian.
The newspaper said it had acquired a copy of the book, titled “Melania,” which will be published on October 8. A spokesman for the former first lady did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Republican Donald Trump previously hinted he might support a national ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but in April he said political issues were more important in the first presidential election since the Supreme Court struck down the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling ended almost 50 years of federal abortion rights.
Trump says that federal states should decide on abortion laws and supports exceptions to the ban in cases of rape, incest or protection of the mother’s life.
Pre-election polls predict a close race, with seven key federal states likely to decide the outcome of the election.
Democrats see abortion rights as a popular issue that Harris could use against Trump. A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted between August 21 and 28 found that a majority of voters, including 34 percent of Republicans, wanted the next president to protect or increase access to abortion. .
Trump is taking credit for the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling in 2022, which protected the right to abortion up to 24 and 28 weeks of pregnancy, because the votes of Trump-appointed justices ruled.