Melania Trump made an extraordinary declaration in an eagerly awaited memoir to be published a month from election day: she is a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body – including the right to abortion.

“It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” the Republican nominee’s wife writes, amid a campaign in which Donald Trump’s threats to women’s reproductive rights have played a central role.

“Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.

“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”

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    11 months ago

    Remember when she wore a jacket with the words “I really don’t care. Do U?” when visiting a migrant child detention facility in Texas?

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    Melania is a self-admitted trophy wife (when asked if she would have married Donald if he wasn’t rich, she responded that he would not have married her if she wasn’t beautiful). Trump’s base, especially the mysoginists, probably wouldn’t care what she says anyway.

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      Pick a lane!

      Why? I don’t think she ever wanted to be in the spotlight and having to pick a lane; she is pretty close for Donny hitting the bucket and her finally getting a slice of the grift pie.

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        I don’t think she ever wanted to be in the spotlight

        Marrying trump seems like an odd choice then. Sure, he wasn’t president at the time, but he was a big public figure.

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    Lol what a 3 page memoir? Born, pretty, modeling, meets rich old man, marries him and rich forever. What a life

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      You are missing her major in sociology from Princeton, her degree from Harvard law school, her time as the assistant to the mayor of Chicago and her role as associate dean of student services at the University of Chicago.

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    You see, Melania, unlike most women that haven’t whored themselves out to a mushroom dicked mango with more money than brains, you can choose where you want to live at will, and even if that place doesn’t let you do what you want, you could be on a private jet to anywhere else that would.

    You ridiculous clown.

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    I actually have more respect for her now than in 2016, and it’s not cause of this headline.

    She honestly stayed out of things waaay more than I thought, still a shitty person but better than ivanka.