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.
Abortion rights groups have outraised opponents by a nearly 8-to-1 margin in campaigns for ballot measures across the U.S. this year.
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.
In a new video promoting her memoir, Melania Trump declares that there's "no room for compromise" when it comes to women's "individual freedom."
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.”
CHICAGO — Melania Trump revealed her support for abortion rights Thursday ahead of the release of her upcoming memoir, exposing a stark contrast with her husband , Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump , on the crucial election issue.
Anti-abortion leaders say they're undeterred by Donald Trump's comments that he would veto a federal abortion ban.
The former first lady reportedly defends reproductive rights in her forthcoming memoir. She also posted a video Thursday about "individual freedom" for women.
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 The court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization repealed constitutional and thus nationwide protections for abortions that had been in place since 1973.
Roe v. Wade actually originates in Texas where “Jane Roe” filed a lawsuit against District Attorney of Dallas County, Henry Wade. In the lawsuit, Roe claimed that Texas’ abortion ban violated the constitution, according to Oyez.
Melania falsely claims in the book that most late-term abortions are ‘the result of severe fetal abnormalities.’