Just weeks after her dad was sworn into office, Ivanka Trump requested a meeting with Planned Parenthood head Cecile Richards, Politico revealed. Until Thursday, the sit-down had not been reported.
The meeting was meant to open up a dialogue on the contentious issue of abortion, after President Trump had declared on the campaign trail that he would defund Planned Parenthood because of his pro-life stance. "The main thing that Cecile Richards was doing was explaining that the money doesn't actually go to abortions — we get reimbursed the same way a hospital does. We were clearing up misinformation about how this works," said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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