Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner offered 'bribes' to stop abortions, Planned Parenthood CEO says
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The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, in her new memoir has said that President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, offered her a deal, which she described as a "bribe", in an attempt to stop providing abortions, People magazine reported.
Richards' memoir — Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead — mentions that she met Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in January 2017, and that the couple offered a hike in Planned Parenthood's federal funding if she stopped providing abortions through the organization.
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"The main issue, he [Kushner] explained, was abortion. If Planned Parenthood wanted to keep our federal funding, we would have to stop providing abortions. He described his ideal outcome: a national headline reading 'Planned Parenthood Discontinues Abortion Services'" the magazine quoted Richards as saying.
Richards reportedly wrote in her memoir that Kushner, who is a White House senior aide, told her to "move fast" on her decision. She, however, declined to accept Kushner's proposal, saying: "It felt almost like a bribe."
She added that Kushner told her that the organization "had made a big mistake by becoming ‘political.’ "
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"The main issue, he explained, was abortion," Richards wrote. "If Planned Parenthood wanted to keep our federal funding, we would have to stop providing abortions. He described his ideal outcome: a national headline reading ‘Planned Parenthood Discontinues Abortion Services.'"
Planned Parenthood provides at least a third of the 900,000 plus abortions performed in the United States every year. Reports state that the organization receives over $500 million on federal funding for services other than abortions.
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The Planned Parenthood CEO said that she had invited the power couple for a meeting "to make sure that Ivanka Trump fully understood the important role Planned Parenthood plays in providing health care to millions of people and why it would be a disastrous idea to block people from accessing care at Planned Parenthood."
Richards' memoir was released on Tuesday and it reached No. 7 on Amazon's Best Sellers List on Wednesday morning.