This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become.
“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.” —Melania Trump, in her forthcoming memoir
For weeks, former first lady Melania Trump has been teasing a memoir titled Melania, which she says will reveal “her truth” after what she deems misrepresentation in the media. The rollout has included the requisite media appearances—even though she has barely campaigned with her husband, the GOP nominee—as well as a literal film trailer and other heavily produced videos posted to social media in which she discusses her nude modeling work and the 2022 raid of Mar-a-Lago. It appears to be some kind of photo book (we can’t entirely tell, though—it’s not out until Tuesday), but a week before its release, it turns out it has at least one real reveal: Melania supports abortion rights.
That’s right. The former first lady, whose husband brags about nominating the Supreme Court justices who ended the federal right to abortion, writes, “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions,........