{"id":126688,"date":"2016-09-22T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T17:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=126688"},"modified":"2016-10-10T22:12:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:12:04","slug":"former-planned-parenthood-staffers-helm-hillary-clinton-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-staffers-helm-hillary-clinton-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood staffers at helm of Clinton campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hillary Clinton has made it no secret that she is a friend of abortion giant Planned Parenthood. The relationship between Hillary and Planned Parenthood dates back many years and Hillary received Planned Parenthood’s (2009) Margaret Sanger Award.\u00a0In 2015, Politico noted<\/a>\u00a0the closeness Clinton had with Planned Parenthood, writing:<\/p>\n

But Clinton\u2019s relationship with Planned Parenthood goes beyond a shared belief in a woman\u2019s right to choose. The group is interwoven with a network of women\u2019s organizations that are among her strongest backers, and Planned Parenthood leaders and activists are among her personal friends, including President Cecile Richards… Clinton\u2019s relationship with Planned Parenthood also extends to the Clinton Global Initiative. For the past two years Planned Parenthood has been a member of CGI and in 2012 committed to train \u201cyouth peer providers\u201d in Latin America, Africa and the U.S. on ways to promote birth control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Planned Parenthood remains the top donor among abortion rights advocacy groups to political campaigns, and has vowed\u00a0to spend<\/a>\u00a0$20 million to usher Hillary Clinton into the White House.\u00a0Planned Parenthood supporters and\u00a0former staffers are deeply embedded within the Hillary presidential campaign. They include:<\/p>\n