Ivanka Trump says she is ‘unapologetically pro-life’ after famously refusing to take a public stand in 2016
IVANKA Trump said that she is “unapologetically” supports the “pro-life” movement – after she famously refused to comment on abortion during her father’s 2016 campaign.
When asked about her views on abortion during an interview with Real Clear Politics published on Thursday, Ivanka said: “I respect all sides of a very personal and sensitive discussion, 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,” she added.
“I am pro-life, and unapologetically so.”
Her pro-life stance comes after famously refusing to take a public stand on the issue in 2016.
In her 2018 book, former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said that Trump and Kushner had offered what she described as a “bribe.”
According to Richards, the “bribe” was so the organization would stop performing abortions.
“If Planned Parenthood wanted to keep our federal funding we would have to stop providing abortions,” she wrote in her book.
In the book, Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead, Richards wrote that Kushner told her to “move fast” and ultimately declining Kushner’s proposal – which she said “felt almost like a bribe.”
In 2017, President Donald Trump pitched the organization a plan allowing the them to retain its federal payments if it stopped providing abortions.
In her interview with Gayle King in 2017, Ivanka defended her position, arguing that she is playing a long game and wouldn’t speak out on the issue because it won’t help her be effective in the White House.
“I’ll take hits from some critics who say that I should take to the street. And then other people will, in the long term, respect where I get to,” she said.
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“But I think most of the impact I have, over time, most people will not actually know about.”
Of the more than 900,000 abortions performed in the country every year, a third are done at Planned Parenthood.
The organization receives more than $500million in federal funding for non-abortion services.