Ivanka Trump/Cecile Richards (TT)

Planned Parenthood-chef anklagar Trump och Kushner för mutförsök

Chefen för Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, anklagar Ivanka Trump och Jared Kushner för att ha försökt ”muta” henne i januari 2017, rapporterar People magazine. I en ny bok skriver Richards att paret erbjöd henne ytterligare statlig finansiering i utbyte mot att familjerådgivningsorganisationen slutade utföra aborter. Hon skriver att hon upplevde erbjudandet som en muta.

”Jared och Ivanka var där av en anledning: att leverera en politisk vinst”, skriver hon i boken ”Make trouble: Standing up, speaking out and finding the courage to lead” som publicerades på tisdagen.

Cecile Richards, som ska sluta som chef under 2018, skriver att syftet med mötet med Trump och Kushner var att se till att presidentens dotter förstod vikten av det arbete som Planned Parenthood gör för amerikanernas hälsa. Richards stöttade själv Hillary Clinton i presidentvalet 2016.

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Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally. It is a tax-exempt corporation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) and a member association of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). PPFA has its roots in Brooklyn, New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which changed its name to Planned Parenthood in 1942. Planned Parenthood consists of 159 medical and non-medical affiliates, which operate over 600 health clinics in the United States. It partners with organizations in 12 countries globally. The organization directly provides a variety of reproductive health services and sexual education, contributes to research in reproductive technology and advocates for the protection and expansion of reproductive rights. PPFA is the largest single provider of reproductive health services, including abortion, in the U.S. In their 2014 Annual Report, PPFA reported seeing over 2.5 million patients in over 4 million clinical visits and performing a total of nearly 9.5 million discrete services including 324,000 abortions. Its combined annual revenue is US$1.3 billion, including approximately US$530 million in government funding such as Medicaid reimbursements. Throughout its history, PPFA and its member clinics have experienced support, controversy, protests, and violent attacks.
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