” 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,” she writes in her upcoming book, according to the Guardian, which obtained a pre-release copy.”
— Attributed to Melania Trump’s “memoir”.
— Just the News
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All that’s missing is about what restrictions, if any, that Melania might deign to consider. 🤔
This may have been a calculated decision to release this wretched opinion, before the election, to counter the Left, who are making Abortion a top issue, reportedly calling this the “Abortion Election”.
Otherwise Melania herself, lost a lot of chips among traditional Catholics. and
23 of 76 respondents reacted early in one Catholic poll, say they will not vote for Trump.
Hard to believe they can mean that, really. But what if they do??
Conservatives are in no mood for indulging one more defection to the death culture, least of all in a public pronouncement from our nominee’s wife.
Sad day. An unnecessarily harshly hedonistic conclusion.
Perhaps there was more context. I didn’t even read the rest
of Solomon’s column to see if there was lipstick added to this declaration.
“...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,”
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If that’s the complete quote from Melania’s memoir, I don’t think there’s much cause for alarm. She doesn’t use the term abortion or any of the established euphemisms. She doesn’t even use the catch-all term “women’s reproductive health.”
I prefer to read this through the lens of Melania’s experience growing up in a Soviet bloc country. I read this as referring to government coercion in all its forms.
It’s an insane person who rejects a candidate because they or their spouse is not ideologically pure enough, especially when the other side’s position is so extreme as to be evil - kill an unwanted baby even after a fully viable birth.