In a recent phone interview with RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann, Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to President Donald Trump, stated openly for the first time that she holds pro-life views.
“I respect all sides of a very personal and sensitive discussion,” she told RCP when asked about abortion, adding, “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.”
According to RCP, “a White House aide followed up to clarify that Ivanka’s answer was both a personal conviction and a reflection of how far Democrats have shifted left on abortion.” The aide asserted that the Democratic Party’s position on abortion has been “[a] huge driving part” of Ivanka’s espoused evolution toward a pro-life position. RCP adds that Ivanka has also “championed” issues such as “criminal justice reform and paid family leave… that likely would have been impossible to push four years ago.”
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RCP pointed out that Ivanka’s views have “undeniably changed” on abortion over the past four years, with the news outlet noting, “She had danced around the issue, declining to take a public position, and a secret meeting with then-Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards in 2017 only heightened fears that Ivanka may have swayed the president away from a campaign promise.”
In 2017, Ivanka seemed to disagree with the president with regard to the defunding of Planned Parenthood, stating in an interview with Gayle King, “… [W]here I disagree with my father, he knows it.”
MSN reports, “In 2018, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards released a memoir that accused Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, of offering her what felt like a ‘bribe’ to stop facilitating abortions… in exchange for more federal funding.” This was just prior to the Trump administration’s announcement of the Title X rule change which stripped Planned Parenthood of approximately $60 million in federal funding after the abortion corporation refused to physically and fiscally separate its abortion services from its family planning/birth control services.
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