‘I am pro-life and unapologetically so’: Ivanka Trump on abortion

President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka Trump has for the first time taken a definitive stance on the issue of abortion. “I am pro-life,” said Ivanka in a telephonic interview with RealClearPolitics.

“I respect all sides of a very personal and sensitive discussion,” she said in the interview.

“But I am also a mother of three children and parenthood affected me in a profound way in terms of how I think about these things,” Ivanka said.

“I am pro-life, and unapologetically so,” she added.

Ivanka is a senior White House advisor and her comments have come just a few days before the US presidential election, in which her father is seeking re-election.

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President Trump, who is trailing his Democratic challenger Joe Biden in several national polls, is seeking out evangelicals and conservative Catholic voters.

Roe v Wade, a landmark US Supreme Court decision in 1973, established a woman’s right to an abortion.  

President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, who was confirmed by the Senate on Monday is known to be an anti-abortionist. During her Senate hearing, she didn’t directly answer questions on how she would rule on abortion rights, but she signed a 2016 newspaper ad opposing “abortion on demand,” New York Times reported.