Roe v Wade: Former friend of Ivanka Trump alleges she had abortion when younger

Ivanka Trump has previously said she is “unapologetically pro-life” but her former friend has dropped a bombshell.

A former friend of Ivanka Trump has controversially claimed she supported the former US President’s daughter in getting an abortion back in high school.

Lauren Santo Domingo, a former high school friend of Mrs Trump, claimed in a since-deleted tweet she took the first daughter of former President Donald Trump, to get the alleged abortion.

The 46-year-old businesswoman and socialite also slammed Mrs Trump for being “noticeably silent” on abortion rights.

“Ivanka Trump you are noticeably quiet today,” Mrs Domingo’s tweet read.

“The high school friends who took you to get an abortion are not.”

A former friend alleges Ivanka Trump had an abortion when she was younger.

However, social media users were quick to call out Mrs Domingo, labelling the post as not appropriate.

“This is where I draw my line. Yeah it’s sh**ty she’s being quiet and she is ‘unequivocally pro life now,” an Instagram user wrote.

Another wrote: “How horrible is this? Doesn’t a public figure no matter how deplorable we the public may find their politics still have a right to medical privacy?.

“It’s important to note that ivanka HAS stayed SILENT in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned. Shouldn’t her FORMER friends.”

Ivanka Trump has previously declared that she is “pro-life”, telling US media company RealClearPolitics about her stance on abortion back in 2020.

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

“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.

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

CELEBRITIES REACT TO ABORTION RULING

Actor Samuel L. Jackson has called out Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a tweet Saturday after the court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Jackson called Thomas “Uncle Clarence,” mocking the justice for his opinion in the landmark abortion case as well as taking aim at the judge’s own interracial marriage to his wife Ginni Thomas.

“How‘s Uncle Clarence feeling about overturning Loving v. Virginia??!!” Jackson wrote on Twitter.

“Uncle Clarence” is most likely a derogatory reference to the literary character “Uncle Tom,” a slave character often associated with submission to a White ruling class.

Other celebrities also voiced their criticism over the ruling, including Billie Joe Armstrong, the California-born frontman for award-winning rockers Green Day, who told a London audience Saturday “F–k America!”, according to the Daily Mail.

“I’m renouncing my citizenship,” he yelled at the crowd. “I’m f–king coming here!

“There’s just too much f–king stupid in the world to go back to that miserable f–king excuse for a country,” he said.

“Oh, I’m not kidding, you’re going to get a lot of me in the coming days.”

The rant came just weeks after Green Day performed in front of a “F–k Ted Cruz” sign, a shot at conservative US Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.

Meanwhile, Australian actor Liam McIntyre has revealed he is expecting a baby girl, but his excitement has been overshadowed as he issued a devastating “apology” to his unborn child.

The 40-year-old Spartacus star, who already has a two-year-old son, Harrison, with his wife Erin Hasan, announced the news that the couple was expecting their second child – a little girl.

“I’m about to have a little girl in a few months. Because of choices I made, she’s going to be American,” he tweeted.

“I was excited to announce this news. Now I feel a need to apologize (sic) to her and she hasn’t even been born,” he said. “Women are incredible. Treasure them and empower them.”

He then took to Instagram to share another message to his unborn daughter.

“I want her to know that in this uncertain and changing world, she will have a Daddy that will do everything in his power to fill her life with joy, ensure she knows her worth, and has every opportunity to shine, that she may go out and change the world in her own special way,” he wrote, as he shared a photo of Harrison,” he posted.

In a subsequent post on Twitter, McIntyre, who is best known for playing the lead role on the Starz television series Spartacus: Vengeance, hit out at the decision to overturn Roe v Wade, suggesting there was merit for a referendum.

“So, if I’m following, this week 9 unelected people went ‘what or who needs more rights? Guns … and what or who has too many rights, well that’s easy – women’,” he tweeted.

“Regardless of individual merit, surely things like this merit referendums or something?!”

ABORTION PILLS: NEW BATTLEGROUND OVER WOMEN’S BODIES

As conservative US states rush to enact abortion bans following the Supreme Court’s bombshell decision, the fight over reproductive rights in America is poised to shift to a new battleground: abortion-inducing pills.

With little other means at its disposal, the Biden administration will focus on expanding access to abortion pills for women living in states where the procedure is banned or restricted – while those states and powerful conservative groups are sure to mount legal challenges to prohibit the use of such pills.

Hours after the United States’ highest court shredded 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion rights on Friday, US President Joe Biden ordered health officials to make sure abortion pills were available to American women.

US President Joe Biden addresses the nation at the White House in Washington, DC on June 24, 2022 following the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Picture: AFP

“I will do all in my power to protect a woman’s right in states where they will face the consequences of today’s decision,” he said in televised address to the nation.

The pills, which can be used without significant risk to terminate a pregnancy up to 10 weeks’ gestation, already account for half of all abortions carried out in the United States.

Demand is set to soar further after 11 states mostly in the Republican-led conservative South moved to severely restrict or fully ban abortion, with others set to follow suit.

Over the weekend, activists rallying outside the Supreme Court in the US capital of Washington DC held up posters with instructions on where women can get abortion pills, while others chanted “My body, my choice.”

Doctor Rebecca Gomperts runs an organisation which supplies abortion pills over the internet. Picture: Supplied

Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch physician who runs Aid Access, an Austria-based organisation that provides abortion pills over the internet, is confident that the situation now faced by American women is not as tragic as it was 50 years ago, before the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling of 1973 that enshrined abortion rights in America.

“The abortion pills cannot be stopped,” Ms Gomperts told AFP in a phone interview.

“So there is always access to a safe abortion if a woman has an unwanted pregnancy.”

But after Friday’s ruling, that may be easier said than done.

Inventor of the RU-486 abortion-inducing drug Professor Emile-Etienne Beaulieu, holds a handful of the pills in Paris, France in 1995. Picture: Supplied

The Food and Drug Administration, America’s health regulator, approved the use of abortion pills two decades ago and last year allowed for them to be prescribed via telemedicine and delivered by mail.

But their use in anti-abortion states remains a legal grey area and will likely become a front line in future court battles over reproductive rights.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports access to abortion, 19 US states require that abortion pills be physically administered by a clinician, thus prohibiting their delivery by mail.

And in states that ban all methods of abortion, women may be prohibited from seeking telehealth appointments with out-of-state doctors or foreign clinicians, like Gomperts’ group.

In this case, they may have to travel to a state where reproductive telehealth appointments are allowed and get the medication delivered to an out-of-state address.

Protesters gather in the wake of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC. Picture: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP

But there is another complication.

A medication abortion requires two drugs: first, a dose of mifepristone is taken to block the hormones that support a pregnancy; then, 24 to 48 hours later, misoprostol is taken to induce contractions.

That raises a question: can a woman from an anti-abortion state be prosecuted if she receives There are fears that conservative states may seek to prosecute health workers and advocacy groups involved in those efforts – and even the patients themselves.

Anticipating such plans, Mr Biden’s Attorney-General Merrick Garland on Friday warned that states cannot ban abortion pills, authorised by the federal regulator, “based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy” since federal law pre-empts state law.

PROTESTS TURN UGLY

Demonstrations in sympathy with the overturning of the US law Roe v Wade have spread worldwide, from outside the US Supreme Court to Madrid, Spain.

Demonstrators take part in a protest against abortion in Madrid after the US Supreme Court's overturned America's constitutional right to abortion. Picture: AFP

In Los Angeles, a man was charged with attempted murder of LAPD officers on Friday night, local time, amid protests of the Roe v. Wade reversal, as a woman was charged with resisting police after they were injured by projectiles, fireworks, and a blowtorch.

Protests in Portland, Oregon turned violent and businesses were vandalised, according to the New York Post.

Several banks and coffee shops had their windows broken, a pregnancy centre was vandalised, and graffiti was scrawled across walls according to local police.

Abortion rights defenders mostly peacefully fanned out across America over the weekend.

An abortion-rights activist argues with an anti-abortion activist in front of the US Supreme Court. Picture: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP

A few thousand people thronged the streets Saturday outside the fenced-off Supreme Court in Washington, in hot summer weather, carrying signs that read “War on women, who’s next?” and “No uterus, No opinion.”

“What happened yesterday is indescribable and disgusting,” said Mia Stagner, 19, a political science major in college.

“Being forced to be a mother is not something any woman should have to do.” Demonstrations also took place in Los Angeles, with dozens of smaller rallies from coast to coast.

Jenna Seiss of Boulder, Colorado, protests outside the Colorado state capitol after the overturning of Roe Vs. Wade by the US Supreme Court. Picture: AFP

At least eight right-leaning states imposed immediate bans on abortion – with a similar number to follow suit in coming weeks – after the Supreme Court eliminated 50-year-old constitutional protections for the procedure, drawing criticism from some of America’s closest allies around the world.

Fuelling the mobilisation, many now fear that the Supreme Court, with a clear conservative majority made possible by Donald Trump, might next set its sights on rights like same-sex marriage and contraception.

Originally published as Roe v Wade: Former friend of Ivanka Trump alleges she had abortion when younger