There are many abortion opponents among Donald Trump’s supporters – which he has often supported. His wife apparently has a completely different opinion.
Washington, DC – In Melania Trump’s memoirs, the former first lady of the USA declares herself to be an abortion supporter, according to media reports. Her husband, the Republican candidate and former president, could Donald Trumpharm – or even help.
Trump has rarely expressed her political views publicly and has been conspicuously absent from her husband’s previous campaign for a second term in the White House. Now, just a few weeks before the election on November 5th, it is causing a stir. In her memoirs, published a month after US election are to be published, she makes an extraordinary statement. The former first lady claims there that she is a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body, including the right to abortion. This was reported by the British, among others Guardian.
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“It is imperative to guarantee that women can decide autonomously whether they Children based on their own beliefs, free from any government interference or pressure,” the Republican presidential candidate’s wife wrote, according to the report. “Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to decide what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right to individual freedom, to her own life, gives her the authority to control her pregnancy to cancel if she so wishes.” Melania Trump convinced.
According to her, “restricting a woman’s right to decide whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body.” Trump’s wife said she had this conviction “all her adult life” – in the middle of an election campaign in which Donald Trump’s threats against women’s reproductive rights play a central role. And despite the sharp decline in women’s reproductive rights in Trump’s first term.
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It is still unclear how these statements will affect the election campaign. According to current polls, the race could be close between Trump and the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris be decided by a small number of voters in crucial swing states. Abortion remains a top issue. Harris recognized this. She has made defending abortion rights a central theme of her campaign, saying they could be threatened nationwide by a second Trump presidency.
“To the chagrin of women across America, Ms. Trump’s husband disagrees strongly with her and is the reason more than one in three American women live under a Trump abortion ban that threatens their health, their freedom and their lives.” Sarafina Chitika, spokeswoman for the Harris campaign, told the US portal Newsweek. Chitika was convinced that he had made it clear that “he wanted to ban abortions nationwide, punish women and restrict women’s access to reproductive health care.”
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Recently, however, Trump has presented a rather ambivalent image, according to the report. This week he announced that he would veto a national abortion ban for the first time – although he had repeatedly rejected this in debates with Harris. However, he had already made it clear that extreme positions on abortion were the case Republicans could be more likely to cause harm; especially among a large group of potential voters: women. The strict abortion opponents among his supporters would have immediately met such statements with disapproval.
Melania Trump’s defense of abortion rights is therefore “a significant development that could have complex implications for Donald Trump’s campaign,” said Craig Agranoff, a political marketing professor at Florida Atlantic University the portal. The timing of the memoir adds “a layer of unpredictability,” Agranoff continued. For those looking for reasons to distrust Trump, “this moment could be a catalyst.” It is therefore possible that Melania Trump’s statements could turn out to be an “October surprise”. “But whether it is a help or a hindrance depends on how the campaign manages to shape the conversation in the coming weeks,” he added. (tpn)
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