Melania Trump is another in a series of American first ladies who support the right to abortion, despite the fact that their Republican wives express opposing views in public.
In a short clip made to promote her next book, she said she supports the "individual freedoms" of women, which she described as "the basic right that all women are born with."
The address came just one day after parts of her memoirs were published in the media, which should soon be available for sale and where she allegedly takes this position even more unequivocally.
Unlike her, Donald Trump helped challenge the right to abortion before the US Supreme Court.
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But Melania Trump is only one of the first ladies of America from the ranks of the Republicans after 1973, when the court decided on the issue for the first time, who believe that the right to abortion should be guaranteed
In 1975, Betty Ford was still the wife of the current president, Gerald Ford, when she called the court's decision to support this right of women "great".
Nancy Reagan waited until the end of her husband Ronald Reagan's term and publicly announced that she "believes in women's right to choose," but her position was reportedly well known in the White House before.
Barbara, the wife of George HW Bush, and Laura, the wife of his son George W. Bush, also came out publicly with the same attitude when their spouses left the White House.
"I think it's important that it remains guaranteed by law, because I believe it's important for people for medical and other reasons," Laura Bush said in 2010.
Melania Trump's approach was different.
"There is no room for compromise when it comes to the basic rights that all women have from birth: individual freedoms.
"What does the slogan 'my body, my choice' really mean?", she says in a black and white video that she published on the Iks platform.
"It is imperative to guarantee women the independence of the decision to have children, which is based on personal convictions and should be free from any intervention or pressure from the state," the Guardian newspaper quotes an excerpt from her memoirs, which should be published soon.
"Why should anyone but the woman herself have the power to decide what she will do with her own body?
"Restricting women's right to decide whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying them control over their own bodies," the former first lady of America believes.
Kate Andersen Brower, journalist and book author The first women, points out that the comments "shocked" her.
"I was so shocked that I wanted to check if they were real. Her views are very much in line with her husband's, so I wonder how she spent so many years watching him undermine something she supposedly cares about?" Andersen Brouer asks.
Her position is not "diametrically opposed" to Trump's, any more than the positions of the former first ladies of America differed from those expressed by their husbands, the journalist believes.
Melania is the first to express such an opinion as her husband tries to fight for a return to the White House.
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The timing indicates the possibility that such a public appearance has a political angle, claims Andersen Brouer.
"It is not impossible that she did this on purpose before the elections, in order to reach voters in wavering states, who like denying the right to abortion.
"Perhaps they can interpret this as a sign that Trump's position on abortion is becoming softer," he points out.
Rina Shah, a political adviser in the Republican campaign, expressed a different view.
Trying to help her husband in this way "wouldn't look like the Melania we know," he claims.
"At this point in the campaign, it doesn't change anything and she knows it. Early voting has started in some places. It's just too late," he says.
The right to abortion is one of the key issues of the elections held next month, and it is considered a weakness of the Republican Party, which fails to reach the conservative core that opposes it, but also the wider electorate, which supports it.
During the campaign, Donald Trump's attitude varied.
He announced this week for the first time that he would veto the decision to ban abortion in the entire country, if the unlikely scenario of such an act being passed by Congress comes true.
The BBC has tried to get a comment from Donald Trump's campaign headquarters.
Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is trying to profit from this attitude of Trump and to attract voters.
She regularly describes Trump as a threat to women's independence because of his influence to change the Supreme Court's position on abortion, which came after he secured a majority for conservative Supreme Court justices in his previous term.
Judges of the US Supreme Court are appointed by the president, there are nine of them in total, and they are elected for life.
"Unfortunately for women in America, Mrs. Trump's husband does not agree with her and he is the reason that a third of American women live in federal states where Trump's ban on abortion is in force, which is a threat to their health, freedom and their lives," says Sarafina Chitika, spokeswoman campaign by Kamala Harris, for the BBC.
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