It should n’t have been a surprise. Michelle Trump had a powerful modeling job. One of the most well-known businesspeople and lawmakers in the world is married to her. She fits the female demographic. Of course she supports pregnancy.  ,
But for pro-lifers who’ve been arguing that Donald Trump is the pro-life opportunity since 2016, it also hurts a little.  ,
Melania‘s book, titled Melania, is n’t set to be released until Oct. 8, but it’s already making headlines. According to reports, the book apparently reveals that the former first lady and perhaps the next earliest lady support a slammed “right” to pregnancy, and Melania in one book’s promotional video speaks out loudly about a woman’s right to what she calls “individual freedom.”
” Personal flexibility is a fundamental process that I uphold. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to the fundamental straight that all women have from beginning: personal freedom. What does’ my body, my choice ‘ really mean” ? ,
Undoubtedly, she’s answered that question in the same way the remaining has: A person’s imagined right to “individual liberty” in the form of contraception supersedes her newborn child’s right to life.  ,  ,
Why should anyone else have the authority to decide what a woman does with her own brain if she is not? apparently wrote in her guide. ” A person’s fundamental right of personal liberty, to her own living, offers her the power to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes”.
She continued, co-opting Democrats ‘ ambiguous language to describe the bringing of innocent human existence, saying,” Restricting a person’s right to choose whether to cancel an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her power over her own body.
That is a dramatic speech. Melania, it seems, did oppose any restraint on abortion. She is not even making the argument that some pro-abortion advocates argue that at least an abortion should be permitted in cases of adultery, rape, or when the mother’s life is in jeopardized. Any restraint, at all, Melania has decided, violates a person’s so-called right to decide. Never head an unborn child’s right to life.  ,
Susan B. Anthony, pro-life America, pointed out in a thread on X that almost 96 % of abortions are performed for elective or unspecified reasons, whether they are for the first few weeks of pregnancy or late-term. In light of these circumstances, it’s difficult to refute the claim that denying a person the right to an abortion would stop her from exercising” power over her own system.”
Of course, if Donald Trump wins in November, Melania wo n’t be the one to decide whether to issue presidential statements calling for states to outlaw the killing of unborn children in their mothers ‘ wombs. She wo n’t also be the one to decide whether to appoint a national abortion ban. But she probably has her father’s ear if he be in a position to produce those decisions.
The timing of the text transfer is purposeful, of course. It provides shock value ( the wife of the man who claims she was to blame for Roe v. Wade’s overturning is pro-abortion ) at a moment that strategists undoubtedly believe is appropriate. Although it’s not exactly an” October surprise,” those tenacious residential single people who tend to lean Democrat may vote for it.  , At the very least, it might get Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s shifting position on abortion onto broadcast windows.  ,
For those who have n’t been paying attention, that shift has become increasingly apparent in recent weeks. On Tuesday, Donald Trump promised to veto a national abortion restrictions on X in a blog that was bolded and in all hats:” All KNOWS I WOULD NOT SUPPORT A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND May, IN FACT, VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE BASED ON THE WILL OF THEIR Electors” . ,
In spite of the large number of fetal lives that were discarded during a second round of IVF, Carmel Richardson writes at First Things, that promises snuffed out the “glimmer of trust” pro-life Americans had held onto even as the former president expressed his support for sponsoring IVF treatments, either legally or through insurance. It’s easy to assume that those IVF therapies were the “fertility solutions” J. D. Vance referred to Tuesday evening when he said:
I believe that’s one of the items that Donald Trump and I are trying to accomplish. I want us, as a Republican Party, to become pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. I want us to help fertility solutions. I want to make it simpler for mothers to purchase children. I want it to make it simpler for younger people to purchase a home and provide for the family to live in.
In the past, Vance has asserted that he supports the use of the mifepristone, a claim he has not refuted ( though it could be argued that he was uninterested in the meeting he conducted on the subject ). Donald Trump’s claims on the subject are somewhat less muddled. After confusing the conclusions of the U.S. Supreme Court, he said during the first presidential debate against Joe Biden back in June that he would n’t block access to the pill.  ,
It’s clear, at this point, that the Republican Party and the Trump-Vance seat have drifted left on pregnancy. Pro-life supporters are left to find out whether this is an election strategy or a lasting and terrible change of leadership. While the original is unsettling, the latter would be devastating. Even so, as Nora Kenney and Samuel Wigutow argued in these sites, Kamala Harris is still” the apparent moral decision for pro-lifers” if they vote for Trump on November 5.
Regardless, Melania Trump’s emphatic support for abortion puts pro-life activists, the Republican Party, and her partner in a more difficult position. At the very least, it places her at odds with her father’s liberal base. If Donald Trump proves to be as pro-life as he was during his first word, at most, it may put her in conflict with him as well.  ,
Aubrey Gulick is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator and a original Intercollegiate Studies Institute brother. A Hillsdale college, she enjoys writing about history, songs, and the crossing of technologies and morality. You may pursue her on X @AubGulick.  ,
