Melania Trump defends abortion rights in extraordinary revelation in her tell-all memoir

Former first woman Melania Trump reveals successful a forthcoming memoir that she supports a woman's correct to choose. 

Melania Trump shockingly says she's 'carried this belief pinch maine passim my full big life.'

The Guardian obtained a transcript of her book Melania, which will beryllium released Tuesday, and reported Wednesday that she holds very different views connected abortion than erstwhile President Donald Trump, nan existent Republican nominee. 

'It is imperative to guarantee that women person autonomy successful deciding their penchant of having children, based connected their ain convictions, free from immoderate involution aliases unit from nan government,' nan erstwhile first woman wrote. 

'Why should anyone different than nan female herself person nan powerfulness to find what she does pinch her ain body?' she asked. 'A woman's basal correct of individual liberty, to her ain life, grants her nan authority to terminate her gestation if she wishes.'

'Restricting a woman's correct to take whether to terminate an unwanted gestation is nan aforesaid arsenic denying her power complete her ain body,' Melania said. 

'I person carried this belief pinch maine passim my full big life,' she added. 

The eyebrow-raising admittance comes aft she says successful nan book that 'occasional governmental disagreements betwixt maine and my husband' are 'part of our relationship.' 

'[B]ut I believed successful addressing them privately alternatively than publically challenging him,' she said. 

Later successful nan book, however, she explains why she's supportive of abortion rights. 

'I person ever believed it is captious for group to return attraction of themselves first,' she said. 'It's a very straightforward concept; successful fact, we are each calved pinch a group of basal rights, including nan correct to bask our lives.'

'We are each entitled to support a gratifying and honorable existence,' she continued. 'This common-sense attack applies to a woman's earthy correct to make decisions astir her ain assemblage and health.' 

Trump has been wide credited for mounting nan array that allowed for nan overturn of Roe v. Wade, nan 1973 landmark Supreme Court determination that federally gave women a correct to an abortion. 

The Republican nominee appointed 3 of nan blimpish justices who signed connected to nan 2022 Dobbs decision, sidesplitting Roe. 

While that was shouted connected by nan anti-abortion helping of nan Republican Party, it was besides nan erstwhile president who realized that nan GOP was now successful governmental peril complete that stance. 

Since then, abortion authorities ballot initiatives person been successful and Republicans underperformed during nan 2022 midterms, apt because abortion was specified a basking issue. 

Trump has struggled to find his footing connected nan issue. 

In August he told DailyMail.com that he mightiness ballot to extremity Florida's six-week abortion ban. 

Floridians are being asked to ballot 'yes' to overturn nan six-week limit.   

'I want much than six weeks,' he said astatine Mar-a-Lago. I deliberation six weeks is simply a mistake.' 

Days later he said he would ballot 'no' connected nan referendum instead, aft his comments irritated anti-abortion activists successful his party. 

More recently, Trump yet said he would veto a national abortion ban. 

He did truthful successful nan mediate of Tuesday's vice statesmanlike debate, aft refusing to explain his position during past month's statesmanlike debate. 

His rival, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and her moving mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, person pushed that if Trump is allowed backmost successful agency abortion authorities could beryllium gone nationwide. 

Trump posted to Truth Social that 'everyone knows that I would not support a national abortion ban, nether immoderate circumstances, and would, successful fact, veto it, because it is up to nan states to determine based connected nan will of their voters (the will of nan people!)'