Melania Trump's pro-choice stand isn't that different from other Republican first ladies

Melania Trump is not the lone archetypal woman to explicit pro-choice views. She joins respective erstwhile Republican archetypal ladies who person shared akin perspectives, often successful their memoirs, contempt this stance historically contrasting with the GOP platform.

Other spouses of Republican presidents, such arsenic Pat Nixon, Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Laura Bush, person been recorded either during oregon aft their husbands' tenure successful bureau expressing pro-choice views.

"I consciousness precise powerfully that it was the champion happening successful the satellite erstwhile the Supreme Court voted to legalize termination and, successful my words, bring it retired of the backwoods and enactment it successful the infirmary wherever it belongs," Betty Ford said successful a CBS News’ "60 Minutes" interrogation successful 1975, 2 years aft Roe v. Wade was handed down.

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Melania Trump arrives connected Day 4 of the Republican National Convention astatine the Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee connected July 18, 2024. (REUTERS/Jeenah Moon)

Following Ford's comments connected premarital sex, marijuana and termination during the CBS interview, then-President Gerald Ford reportedly joked that she had outgo him votes.

As a much blimpish archetypal lady, Nancy Reagan avoided taking a nationalist stance against termination that would enactment her astatine likelihood with erstwhile President Ronald Reagan. However, she aboriginal revealed her idiosyncratic presumption connected the issue.

"I'm against abortion, I don't judge successful abortion," Reagan said at George Washington University successful 1994, 5 years aft her hubby near the Oval Office. "On the different hand, I judge successful a woman's choice. So, it puts maine determination successful the middle, but I don't cognize what you'd telephone that."

Barbara Bush, erstwhile President George H. W. Bush's wife, was much reserved successful her nationalist statements astir termination and was astatine likelihood with her husband's anti-abortion stance. While she was not arsenic outspoken arsenic Betty Ford, she wrote successful her 1994 memoir, "I hatred abortions, but I conscionable could not marque that prime for idiosyncratic else."

Former archetypal woman Laura Bush, woman of erstwhile President George W. Bush and daughter-in-law to Barbara Bush, besides differed with the erstwhile Presidents Bush connected abortion. 

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Former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, erstwhile archetypal woman Barbara Bush. (The Associated Press)

"I deliberation it's important that it stay legal, due to the fact that I deliberation it's important for radical for aesculapian reasons and different reasons," she said successful an interrogation with Larry King Live successful 2010. 

Pat Nixon, then-President Richard Nixon's wife, told reporters during a 1972 property league – arsenic Roe v. Wade arguments were being considered by the Supreme Court – that she supported the close to take an abortion, but opposed "wholesale termination connected demand."

Trump, woman of Republican statesmanlike campaigner and erstwhile President Donald Trump, wrote the memoir entitled "Melania" that is scheduled to travel retired connected Oct. 8, per the Amazon merchandise date. In the book, according to a preview by The Guardian, she expresses a viewpoint intimately aligned with that of erstwhile archetypal ladies earlier her.

"It is imperative to warrant that women person autonomy successful deciding their penchant of having children, based connected their ain convictions, escaped from immoderate involution oregon unit from the government," Trump reportedly wrote.

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President George H.W. Bush, left, and archetypal woman Barbara Bush reunite with erstwhile White House mates, erstwhile President Ronald Reagan and erstwhile archetypal woman Nancy Reagan during the Republican National. Convention successful April 1992. (Getty)

"Why should anyone different than the pistillate herself person the powerfulness to find what she does with her ain body? A woman’s cardinal close of idiosyncratic liberty, to her ain life, grants her the authorization to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes.

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"Restricting a woman’s close to take whether to terminate an unwanted gestation is the aforesaid arsenic denying her power implicit her ain body. I person carried this content with maine passim my full big life."

The erstwhile archetypal woman drew disapproval from pro-life advocates connected societal media aft the excerpts were published conscionable a period distant from Election Day. This year, the Republican Party's authoritative level besides softened its connection connected abortion, arsenic erstwhile President Trump besides said helium would not enactment a national termination ban.