5 Takeaways From Melania Trump’s Book

[SYZ]

Ms. Trump made headlines this week when a
reported excerpt from her book revealed that
she supported abortion rights—a notable position
given that her husband appointed three SC
justices who helped overturn a constitutional
right to the procedure.

"Melania Trump’s new memoir offers a few new glimpses into a life
she has carefully walled off from the public, but readers hoping to
understand one of the most mysterious first ladies in modern history
will not make it past the gilded front gate."

Check out the NYT's advanced release review here.

[Charladele]

Can't read that article without a subscription...

[Inkubus]

Can't read that article without a subscription...

I think this is the one

[pattylt]

She didn’t write it..she just approved it. Her English isn’t that great. She’s a vacuous money whore and her naivety about journalists going after her are just pathetic. Michelle endured much worse. I’m glad she’s protective of Barron but it would be even better to keep him from his father.

And her menstrual Christmas was an embarrassment of decorating. I’ll not be reading her trash…

[brewerb]

Sounds like a waste of money. $30 and up sounds like price gouging. Has anyone told Kamala?

[Aractus]

Can't read that article without a subscription...

https://archive.is/HfSCI

Ms. Trump made headlines this week when a reported excerpt from her book revealed that she supported abortion rights—a notable position given that her husband appointed three SC justices who helped overturn a constitutional right to the procedure.

How is that “noble”?

The US Supreme Court just returned the right to determine the parameters on pregnancy terminations to the States - this is what has been badly misreported on. The “constitutional right” was established under Roe v Wade 1973, but that ruling itself was not constitutionally sound. It doesn't matter whether you're “pro-choice” or “pro-life”, Roe made a situation that doesn't exist in other federated democracies such as Australia where the right to legislate on this exact issue is for the States not the Federal Government or a politicised highest court of the land.

Also what they talk about in the US is not even on the radar in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, England, etc. Exemptions for “life of the mother” - that's a totally political US thing. In Australia and pretty much everywhere else exemptions for later-term terminations are for the health of the mother.

[epronovost]

Roe made a situation that doesn't exist in other federated democracies such as Australia where the right to legislate on this exact issue is for the States not the Federal Government or a politicised highest court of the land.r.

Did you know that in Canada, abortion rights were also granted by a Supreme Court decision the R v Morgentaler? It decriminalized abortions in the entire country by invalidating laws preventing it due to the fact such law was in breach of women's right of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom which was incorporated in the Canadian constitution in 1982.

Also the article didn't say it was noble, but that it was notable.

[Minimalist]

Roe made a situation that doesn't exist in other federated democracies such as Australia where the right to legislate on this exact issue is for the States not the Federal Government or a politicised highest court of the land.

In my opinion that just makes Australia a backward country.  See how that works?

[SYZ]

...The US Supreme Court just returned the right to determine the parameters on pregnancy terminations to the States - this is what has been badly misreported on.

As of April 2024, 14 states have implemented abortion bans,
11 states have placed gestational limits on abortion between
6 and 22 weeks, and 25 states and the District of Columbia
provide broader access to abortions after 22 weeks gestation.

   —Women's Health Policy, KFF, 24 April 2024.

[Aractus]

Also the article didn't say it was noble, but that it was notable.

Oh right, I misread that!

Did you know that in Canada, abortion rights were also granted by a Supreme Court decision the R v Morgentaler? It decriminalized abortions in the entire country by invalidating laws preventing it due to the fact such law was in breach of women's right of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom which was incorporated in the Canadian constitution in 1982.

That's just decriminalisation. We're talking two completely different things. It's one thing to say it's decriminalised at the federal level, it's another to say there can't be jurisdictional regulations.

Let's imagine for a second that we're not talking about abortion at all and we're talking about some other generic medical procedure. It's perfectly normal that you would have regulations in place to (1.) protect patients from unwanted medical intervention; (2.) that they fully understand the risks; (3.) that their choice is informed. On top of that there could be regulations against medical inventions for at-risk patients and so-on.

Again, the US is a weird outlier on termination. They are an embarrassment to the rest of the civilised democracies - same as their criminalisation of sex work.

[epronovost]

That's just decriminalisation. We're talking two completely different things. It's one thing to say it's decriminalised at the federal level, it's another to say there can't be jurisdictional regulations.

Roe v Wade didn't prevent jurisdictional regulations either. It prevented such regulation to restrict abortion prior to the point of viability of the fetus, but not nothing prevented States to regulate abortions services. In fact, many, many States passed "snap laws" to ban abortions or severely restrict it should Roe v Wade be overturned, but also regulation on question of sanitation, security, emplacement of the clinic in the city, preventing tax dollars to finance abortion servicesetc. This resulted in many States having only a handful of sites providing abortions; some even had none so severe were the restrictions. These were called "shadow bans" and were a major problem for women in those States.

[SYZ]

Many subjects are missing from Melania's book, apparently.

Not surprisingly, she has nothing to say about other women
in her husband’s life: E Jean Carroll (who Donald defamed
and sexually assaulted); Stormy Daniels (the adult film star
whose hush-money payments led to Donald’s criminal conviction);
Karen McDougal (the former Playboy Playmate who also had
an affair with Donald).

There are less than a handful of passing references to Ivanka,
Donald’s oldest daughter who he said he would have dated if
she weren’t flesh and blood and who Melania is widely reported
to loathe. Trump’s children by other women barely get a look-in.

It was also if note that she never mentions her earlier life as a
nude model...
         

The pictures were taken almost a decade before she married  
Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida, in January 2005.

There's a decent review of Melania's book HERE.