# Will Melania Trump's pro-choice stance be a factor in the election? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 3, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425 "2024-10-03T22:09:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/41 "2024-10-04T02:12:06Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > I also think she’s angling to avoid going back to Washington. I’m sure she’d very much prefer to sit on her ass in New York. If he wins, I’m not sure she will even go to DC with him. Why should she? Norms and traditions have been discarded. She didn’t play the traditional politician’s spouse during the campaign and no one seemed to care. Maybe she would show up for a state dinner or two (for a price). The only reason she is publicly talking now is to sell her book. Saying provocative things gets her attention and helps with that. It’s all about her, and Donald profiting from it in some way is immaterial. I suppose there are some people who are her fans rather than his and could be persuaded to vote one way or another by her statements but they are much fewer than the ones who are locked in for Trump and don’t care what she says. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/42 "2024-10-04T02:19:25Z")
You’re assuming she actually wrote a word of that book. I doubt she’s ever concerned herself with fact of an unplanned pregnancy, having to make a choice of a rock and a hard place. She asked CNN for 6 figure payout to do an interview about her book. Who does that? ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/43 "2024-10-04T02:28:44Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > They just want it to be illegal for those other people. [![](https://www.wackyprint.com/designcodes/0/1/111/11113595.png) ](https://www.wackyprint.com/designcodes/0/1/111/11113595.png) ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/44 "2024-10-04T02:30:38Z")
Lol, really? We are still bringing this kind of thing up? Yeah if we were taking about a regular GOP candidate at any point before 2016. Then, yes a candidate’s wife coming out as pro-choice would be a huge deal. But those days are gone. The norms hold the Republic together have been stomped in the dirt. After admitting to habitually carrying out sexual assault, the rape verdict, the felony conviction, the coup attempt, stealing highly classified documents, etc. etc. etc, this barely registers. Hell she’d need to come out as pro baby cannibalism to even make the front page ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/45 "2024-10-04T02:48:10Z")
Trump is a 3-time GOP nominee while personally using eminent domain to enrich himself, strongly opposing trade and the free movement of goods and peoples, and probably supporting abortion rights personally or having no opinion other than what supports his personal branding/marketing. I think it’s been known he’s free of ideology or values for at least 9 years, but apparently so is the Republican Party. I mean these are the people who call pure standard conservatives 'RINOS" while not holding any traditionally Republican economic or social positions. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/46 "2024-10-04T03:10:15Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I think it will be completely irrelevant. Republican candidates’ wives have often been pro choice, by my memory. Didn’t Gerald and Betty Ford have this same conflict? ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/47 "2024-10-04T17:06:47Z")
I think all the Republican First Ladies since Betty Ford have been pro-choice. Betty Ford was the only one to be public about it while her husband was president. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/48 "2024-10-04T17:10:07Z")
I’ll give her some credit for not toeing the MAGA line. Other than that, I have no interest in what she says. Unless she says “Moose and squirrel”. I’d like to hear her say that. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/49 "2024-10-04T17:20:45Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > I think all the Republican First Ladies since Betty Ford have been pro-choice. Betty Ford was the only one to be public about it while her husband was president. Not to mention that Roe v Wade was a Republican-majority decision. The Republican party is, traditionally, the party of freedom from government intervention into our personal lives, and that’s precisely the reasoning of Roe v Wade. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/50 "2024-10-04T17:25:49Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Unless she says “Moose and squirrel”. I’d like to hear her say that. She wouldn’t say that, she’s not badenov. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/51 "2024-10-04T17:37:34Z")
I wasn’t sure there were enough people old enough to get that. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/52 "2024-10-04T17:55:15Z")
This contradiction has always bothered me. You can choose not to get a vaccine during a pandemic since “your body, your choice”, when getting that vaccine would benefit others, but… ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/53 "2024-10-04T17:55:45Z")
> [@Trump](#): > > I’m not going to tell you what to do How about we apply this concept to women who aren’t married to you? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/54 "2024-10-04T17:57:55Z")
I’d like to hear her say “shut up your mouth”. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/55 "2024-10-04T18:20:14Z")
Every word out of her mouth is scripted, taught and controlled. She is not believable in any way. A puppet. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/56 "2024-10-04T18:24:55Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > > [@BobLibDem](#): > > > > I’ll give her some credit for not toeing the MAGA line. Other than that, I have no interest in what she says. Unless she says “Moose and squirrel”. I’d like to hear her say that. > > She wouldn’t say that, she’s not badenov. Well done, the both of youse. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/57 "2024-10-05T20:56:27Z")
Split this topic on October 5, 2024, 8:56pm UTC 11 posts were split to a new topic: [Melania is not in Superdude’s top 50](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/melania-is-not-in-superdudes-top-50/1008483) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/58 "2024-10-04T19:54:43Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > She wouldn’t say that, she’s not badenov. I’m ashamed to admit how old I was before I “got” the badenov/gudunov wordplay. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/62 "2024-10-05T02:19:09Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Or the alternative Trumpian way: > > « Melania Trump? Don’t know her. » Or another Trump alternative - attack the questioner. “That was a nasty question. So nasty. Such a nasty - my wife is great, she’s beautiful - person, you’re a nasty person, Melania, she’s, everybody loves Melania - you saw how beautiful she is, no wife has been so beautiful in the history of our country.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425/63 "2024-10-05T03:09:36Z")
Roe V. Wade was also a fairly new decision during the Ford administration. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-melania-trumps-pro-choice-stance-be-a-factor-in-the-election/1008425.md?page=4)