Abortion advocates challenge Ivanka Trump in Africa on US pro-life policies

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Abortion advocates challenge Ivanka Trump in Africa on US pro-life policies
Susan Yoshihara

May 6, 2019 (C-Fam) — Though she is known to favor abortion rights, Ivanka Trump has tried to steer clear of the abortion debate in her role as Presidential advisor. Since her visit to Africa last week to roll out her signature economic initiative, however, abortion proponents have been taking the fight to her.

"We don't deserve Saint Ivanka, we really don't. Nobody asked Donald Trump's favorite child to devote her life to empowering women," one abortion activist wrote for the Guardian. "Ivanka's superpower, inherited from her father, is that she believes her own spin. She seems genuinely to see herself as a champion of women — despite the fact that she has remained silent as her father has systematically attacked women's rights."

The trip raises the question of whether Trump can thread the needle as privately pro-choice and publicly supporting her father's administration, which some have argued is the most pro-life administration in U.S. history. Pro-lifers, part of the President's political base, are vigilant as well. They remain concerned that her economic initiatives may allow loopholes that undermine the President's newly enhanced pro-life foreign policy, known as "Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance."

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