{"id":233930,"date":"2020-11-02T07:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T13:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233930"},"modified":"2020-11-01T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:02:30","slug":"ivanka-trump-daughter-president-trump-pro-life-unapologetically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ivanka-trump-daughter-president-trump-pro-life-unapologetically\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Trump: &#8216;I am pro-life, and unapologetically so&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a recent phone interview with\u00a0RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann, Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to President Donald Trump, stated openly for the first time that she holds pro-life views.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I respect all sides of a very personal and sensitive discussion,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/10\/29\/the_pragmatism_and_new_populism_of_ivanka_trump__144548.html#2\">told RCP when asked about abortion<\/a>, adding, \u201cbut 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to RCP, &#8220;a\u00a0White House aide followed up to clarify that Ivanka\u2019s answer was both a personal conviction and a reflection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/25\/us\/politics\/abortion-laws-2020-democrats.html\">how far Democrats have shifted left<\/a> on abortion.&#8221; The aide asserted that the Democratic Party&#8217;s position on abortion has been &#8220;[a] huge driving part\u201d of Ivanka&#8217;s espoused evolution toward a pro-life position. RCP adds that Ivanka has also &#8220;championed&#8221; issues such as &#8220;criminal justice reform and paid family leave&#8230; that likely would have been impossible to push four years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/a-look-at-another-pro-life-trump-policy-paid-maternity-leave\/\">An often overlooked pro-life Trump policy: Paid maternity leave<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RCP pointed out that Ivanka&#8217;s views have &#8220;undeniably changed&#8221; on abortion over the past four years, with the news outlet noting, &#8220;She had danced around the issue, declining to take a public position, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/04\/ivanka-trump-planned-parenthood-outreach-236940\">a secret meeting<\/a> with then-Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards in 2017 only heightened fears that Ivanka may have swayed the president away from a campaign promise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Ivanka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/04\/ivanka-trump-planned-parenthood-outreach-236940\">seemed to disagree<\/a> with the president with regard to the defunding of Planned Parenthood, stating in an interview with Gayle King,\u00a0\u201c&#8230; [W]here I disagree with my father, he knows it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/ivanka-trump-is-unapologetically-against-womens-abortion-rights-says-shes-a-pragmatist\/ar-BB1awtwy?ocid=uxbndlbing\">MSN reports<\/a>, &#8220;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 &#8216;bribe&#8217; to stop facilitating abortions&#8230;\u00a0in exchange for more federal funding.&#8221;\u00a0This was just prior to the Trump administration&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/trump-cut-planned-parenthood-funding\/\">announcement of the Title X rule change<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent phone interview with\u00a0RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann, Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to President Donald Trump, stated openly for the first time that she holds pro-life views. &#8220;I respect all sides of a very personal and sensitive discussion,\u201d she told RCP when asked about abortion, adding, \u201cbut I am also a mother of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":233981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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