Melania Trump backs abortion rights: 'No room for compromise' on women's freedom

• Former first lady Melania Trump appeared to express support for strong abortion rights.
• Melania Trump's revelation, which came in a promo video for her forthcoming memoir, followed a report that her book contains an even clearer pro-abortion stance.
• Her husband, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has taken credit for ending Roe v. Wade federal abortion protections.

Republican former first lady Melania Trump on Thursday appeared to express strong support for abortion rights, potentially exposing a stark division with her husband, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, on a key election issue.

"Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard," Melania Trump said in the latest promo video for her forthcoming memoir, "Melania."

"Without a doubt there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth," she said in the 28-second video posted on X.

"Individual freedom," the former president's spouse added. "What does 'my body, my choice' really mean?"

The post came less than a day after The Guardian reported that Melania Trump passionately and unequivocally defends total abortion rights in her new book.

"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," Trump writes in the book, according to the Guardian.

"Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman's fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes," she reportedly writes.

"Restricting a woman's right to choose