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Sun Nov 4, 2018, 07:56 AM Nov 2018

Ivanka Trump shows yet again she's no friend to women

Arwa Mahdawi

The first daughter is supporting Republican Kim Reynolds in Iowa – the acting governor whose record on women’s rights in horrific

By campaigning for Kim Reynolds, Ivanka Trump shows yet again she is no friend to women

First daughter, presidential adviser and failed shoe entrepreneur Ivanka Trump is hard at work empowering women! On Friday she headed to Iowa to campaign for Kim Reynolds, a Republican who became acting governor of the state last year, when Terry Branstad resigned to become US ambassador to China. Reynolds is facing off against the Democrat Fred Hubbell, a wealthy businessman who hasn’t run for public office before, and it’s a tight race.

If Reynolds wins she will be the first woman elected as governor in Iowa. But that would be nothing to celebrate. Having more women in office means nothing if those women enact regressive policies. And Reynolds’ horrific record on women’s health is a sign she would do just that. She has already been applauded by conservatives for signing the strictest abortion ban in America, which bars doctors from performing most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. That’s normally a mere six weeks into a pregnancy.

Ivanka hasn’t made her views on abortion clear. “I don’t talk about my politics,” she said when asked to take a clear yes-or-no stand on the issue in a 2016 radio interview. However, her support for Reynolds is just the latest sign that Ivanka is against women having the right to choose. Last year, for example, Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, wrote in her memoir that Jared Kushner and Ivanka offered her what she felt to be a “bribe”: Planned Parenthood could keep its federal funding if they stopped providing abortions.

Despite the fact that she is basically a female version of her father, Ivanka continues to portray herself as a champion of women, flying around the world to talk about female empowerment. One of the most important ways to empower women, however, is to give them control over their reproductive rights. Ivanka’s support for Reynolds, who is doing everything she can to take those rights away, is yet another reminder that Ivanka is no friend to women.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/03/ivanka-trump-kim-reynolds-iowa-abortion-womens-rights


She is plastic..........................a fucking fake and to top it all off she is fraudster , ask the state of New York on what here family was doing with 400 million on the ponzi scheme.............


And the "acting governor " of the state of Iowa wants this fraudsters support say a lot ...................she also is a fake


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