Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump offered ‘bribe’ to stop abortions, says CEO of planned parenthood

Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood, has revealed in her new memoir that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump offered her what seemed like a bribe.

Richards said that Jared and Ivanka in attempt to be recognised as shrewd political dealmakers during Donald Trump’s 2016 transition as president-elect, that the soon-to-be first daughter and her husband made an offer that felt like a “bribe”, specifically an increase in federal funding for Planned Parenthood in exchange for its agreement to stop providing abortions.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

Richards says she was leery of taking the meeting in January 2017, but after the defeat of Planned Parenthood’s champion, Hillary Clinton, she was open to finding possible new allies in the president-elect’s more moderate-leaning daughter and son-in-law.

“Everyone at Planned Parenthood was hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. We brainstormed, planned, and made lists of anyone who might be a potential ally in the administration” she says.

She further mentioned that Kushner told her Planned Parenthood “had made a big mistake by becoming ‘political.’ The main issue, he 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,” Kushner says.

According to Make Trouble, Kushner said that if Richards agreed to the plan then funding could increase, but he urged them to “move fast.”

Since the meeting, Richards and Ivanka Trump have clashed publicly mainly because of Ivanka Trump’s decision to remain silent about Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood.

While Ivanka Trump’s team has yet to respond to request for a comment, she did defend her decision to remain quiet after a bill passed last year that permits states to refuse funding to organisations that provide abortions.

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