Posted on 02/25/2016 2:58:33 PM PST by Morgana
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has been taking criticism from pro-life voters for his repeated claims that the Planned Parenthood abortion business does “good work†and “wonderful things.†Today the head of the abortion company took notice and said she appreciates Trump’s kind words about it.
“This is one thing I agree with Donald Trump on,†Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards said.
Below is the transcript and video of Richards’ interview with MSNBC:
MITCHELL: “Cecile, as the head of Planned Parenthood, you’ve been through the mill with all of the controversy in the past couple of months. Here is Donald Trump recently on ‘Meet The Press’ and he sounds like he is in your court. Let’s watch.â€
[clip starts] TRUMP: “They do some very good work, cervical cancer, lots of women’s issue — women’s health issues are taken care of….Planned Parenthood does a lot of good job — a really good job at a lot of different areas but not on abortion. So, I’m not going to fund it if it’s doing the abortion. I’m not going to fund it. Now they say it’s 3 percent and it’s 4 percent, some people say it’s 60 percent. I don’t believe it’s 60 percent by the way, but, I think it’s probably a much lower number. But Planned Parenthood does some very good work.†[clip ends]
RICHARDS: “Well, this —“
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MITCHELL: “So, it’s a mixed blessing I guess. But, your response?â€
RICHARDS: “Well, this is one thing I agree with Donald Trump on, is that Planned Parenthood does amazing work for 2 1/2 million patients every single year. I think the disturbing thing is that Donald Trump as well as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have said if they were president, they would end women’s access to family planning, to cancer screening, to basic affordable health care as well as overturning the Affordable Care Act which is now covering family planning and other preventive care for for 55 million women. That’s what’s really at stake here. And so, I appreciate his kind words. We’re very proud of our work, but I think women in this country and families and men are going to be very concerned about a president who wants to roll back access to affordable health care in America.â€
Trump has pro-life voters in disagreement with each other about whether he is truly pro-life — as he calls for defunding Planned Parenthood on one hand while praising the abortion company on the other for it’s “good works†or good things.â€
After his most recent comments saying , “I have many, many friends who are women, who understand Planned Parenthood better than you or I will ever understood it,†one MSNBC host said that may make Trump “more electable.â€
Trump continues to claim that he opposes abortion and the abortion component of the Planned Parenthood abortion business and maintains he opposes federal taxpayer funding of the billion-dollar corporation.
“Planned Parenthood does a really good job at a lot of different areas. But not on abortion,†he said Sunday. “So I’m not going to fund it if it’s doing the abortion. I am not going to fund it.â€
This past week, for the first time, Trump has specifically promised he would sign a bill as president to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Trump has repeatedly indicated he opposes Planned Parenthood funding but has always stopped short of committing to sign legislation to stop the flow of taxpayer funds to the nation’s biggest abortion business.
In a new interview with David Brody of CBN, Trump made that promise. Although his promise will go a long way towards reassuring pro-life voters he would implement specific pro-life policy on abortion as president, Trump continued to praise Planned Parenthood — following up on his “good things†and “wonderful work†comments that have turned off some pro-life voters.
Meanwhile, Trump said he thinks the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that ushered in an era of 48 million abortions was “wrongly decided.†Trump said he would appoint “very good judges†who would ultimately “change it†but he opposed Roe without specifically saying it should be overturned.
In the last presidential debate, Trump feuded with Ted Cruz over the issue of Planned Parenthood funding. Cruz made the claim that Trump was a long-time supporter of abortion. Even though Trump has changed his mind and become pro-life, Cruz maintains that Trump supports taxpayer funding of the nation’s largest abortion business.
As far as Trump’s comments on Planned Parenthood funding are concerned, Trump has fairly consistently said he opposes taxpayer funding but he’s also made some remarks about the “good things†Planned Parenthood does that have alarmed pro-life voters — as if any “good thing†could make up for the fact that planned Parenthood kills 330,000 unborn babies a year in abortions and then sells their body parts for profit.
Here are some of the headlines we’ve carried at LifeNews.com in recent months that provide further details on what Trump has said regarding Planned Parenthood funding: July 23: Donald Trump: The Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Should “Absolutely be De-Funded†August 4: Donald Trump: Shut Down the Federal Government to De-Fund Planned Parenthood August 11: Donald Trump: Planned Parenthood is an “Abortion Factory†August 17: Donald Trump: Videos of Planned Parenthood Selling Aborted Babies Were “Disgusting,†De-Fund It August 26: Donald Trump: Planned Parenthood is an “Abortion Factory†That Sells Baby Parts Like Automobiles October 19: Donald Trump: “Planned Parenthood Should Absolutely be De-Funded†December 2: Donald Trump: De-Fund Planned Parenthood and “Look Carefully at†Overturning Roe v. Wade December 22: Donald Trump: Unless Planned Parenthood Stops Doing Abortions, We Should De-Fund It
If we don't do this, in my humble opinion, you can crow about abortion til the cows come home. Because we won't HAVE A COUNTRY !!
I'm going for border security and national security first and foremost.
That's my priority. You got yours, I got mine.
You don’t think Christ is going to intervene if we keep killing his children at such a grand rate? The “invader” you speak of is abortion!
This is called wording it in a way not to start a war with PP, but actually saying that it will be defunded because we all know they won’t stop doing abortions. But all they hear is that they are so good. LOL
Pick your battles. Win the election. Then clarify and watch the fireworks.
Now Trump has both Code Pink and Planned Parenthood praising him.
VERY strange.
Wow, what a fool.
The Founding Fathers were very clear in their intent to, "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."
The fundamental Blessing of Liberty is LIFE, because without life everything else is meaningless.
Why, exactly, do you expect God to battle for a nation that murders the innocent at the rate of 4000 per day?
If we don't do this, in my humble opinion, you can crow about abortion til the cows come home. Because we won't HAVE A COUNTRY !!
America has, in just the past two generations, MURDERED 60 MILLION INNOCENT AMERICANS, embraced sodomy and destroyed the institution of marriage and you think God wants us to protect that?
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally in favor of closing the border, but I do not operate under the misconception that this will somehow fix America. Illegal aliens are but a SYMPTOM of the moral sickness in our Republic, they are not the cause.
When did the illegal aliens really start becoming an issue? In the 1980s when employers noticed a serious shortage of people willing to perform manual labor. Coincidentally, this is EXACTLY ONE GENERATION after the start of the American Holocaust which specifically targets the lower classes.
Illegal aliens fill a gap CREATED BY ABORTION, end abortion and the demand for illegals disappears.
Can Trump or any other candidate guarantee that they can close the border? They can try, we can hope that they can, but only time will tell if they can succeed. On the other hand, a truly pro-life president CAN END ABORTION WITH THE STROKE OF A PEN. Ending the moral and demographic disaster that abortion has created will ultimately fix nearly all of America's problems.
As to your earlier post about Planned Parenthood being a "health clinic" and your support for them remaining as such, you are either completely misinformed or being deliberately misleading.
Does Big Murder hand out birth control? Sure, but do does EVERY OTHER HEALTH CLINIC AND OB/GYN. But their REAL BUSINESS is killing babies and they kill ONE THOUSAND INNOCENT AMERICANS EVERY DAY.
They take money to provide breast cancer screenings, yet they do not own a single mammogram machine.
They take money to provide prenatal care, but they only provide prenatal care for 5000 women per year, compared to 1000 abortions PER DAY.
Every penny that goes to Big Murder can go to health clinics that ACTUALLY DO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE FOR WOMEN, because killing babies isn't healthcare.
I listened to both Trump and Pastor Jeffress this past week with Hannity explain his statement about Planned Parenthood.
It’s pretty simple: If they don’t stop doing abortions, then they will be defunded. If they do stop doing abortions, then pap smears, cervical checks, etc. will be okay. He’ll support that continuing.
I listened to it from 2 sources. Jeffress said he SPECIFICALLY questioned Donald Trump on this very thing.
What an excellent post. Thanks, wagglebee!
Are you giving God any reasons to forgive you for your indifference (at best) to the slicing, dicing and hamburgerization of his babies?
Yes, Hitler killed some Jews but he created a great system of highways and ran a generally tight ship. Too bad for the Jews but, first things first, we need good highways! Right?
TRUMP!!!ETTES are stuck on a pragmatism that is not even pragmatic. Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep!!!....
She will care though on the day she dies.
It just amazes me with all the posts I do daily that FReepers still have their heads up their _____ on Planned Parenthood.
Tell me am I not posting enough?
Ya , gab Hitler uns die Autobahn und den Volkswagen . Das ist gut! Im Wert von Millionen von Menschenleben . NICHT!
You are doing a great job [for Jesus and the babies]! When I first joined up with Free Republic, a FReeper sent me a private message that said that a good portion of the contributors on the site were older men [who had been on the site since forever] and they did not have any particular strong feelings on pro-life. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but it seemed to make sense at the time.
God bless you and yours!
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