Donald Trump accused of flip-flopping on Planned Parenthood as he says he's 'totally opposed' to federal funding – just weeks after touting its non-abortion services
- Donald Trump said Tuesday that he'd cut funding for Planned Parenthood and did not support them
- Last month Trump said abortions were a 'fairly small part of what they do'
- 'So we have to look at the positives' Trump said about Planned Parenthood
- The Trump campaign said he has been consistent on the issue
Donald Trump is being accused of a Planned Parenthood flip-flip of sorts – as the candidate now says he's 'totally opposed to funding' the group with taxpayer dollars, just weeks after he touted the non-abortion services the organization provided.
'I'm not supporting Planned Parenthood,' Trump said Tuesday night on 'The O'Reilly Factor,' a top-rated Fox News Channel program.
'I would totally be opposed to funding.
In August, however, the GOP front-runner sang a different tune saying that abortion was only a small percentage of what the organization does.
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FLIP FLOP? Donald Trump now says he'd defund Planned Parenthood, previously he talked about how abortions were only a sliver of what the women's health care organization did
Anti-abortion group, the Center for Medical Progress, released a series of videos alleging that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissues. In one a doctor was recorded apparently talking about a deal to sell organs harvested from an aborted fetus, saying: 'I want a Laborghini.'
'We have to help women,' Trump said August 11 on the 'Hannity' show, also on Fox News.
'So we have to look at the positives, also for Planned Parenthood.'
Trump explained then that there were actually 'two Planned Parenthoods.'
'You have it as an abortion clinic. Now that's actually a fairly small part of what they do, but it's a brutal part and I'm totally against it and I wouldn't do that,' The Donald explained to Sean Hannity. 'They also, however, service women.'
On Tuesday night Trump hammered Bill O'Reilly with the same zeal that he dressed down GOP debate moderator Megyn Kelly in August.
'Somebody said I was supporting Planned Parenthood,' Trump told O'Reilly. 'You read a wrong report, Bill, you have bad researchers.'
TALE OF TWO HOSTS: Trump told Sean Hannity (left) that he wouldn't completely cut off Planned Parenthood from federal dollars, but insisted weeks later to Bill O'Reilly (right) that there would be no loopholes
Trump told O'Reilly that he was opposed to all federal funding of the organization – dropping his previous exception for Planned Parenthood's women's health services
'I wouldn't do any funding as long as they are performing abortions,' the businessman said.
A spokesperson for the Trump campaign said that Trump has been 'consistent on his position in regards to Planned Parenthood,' pointing to a statement released by the campaign several weeks ago.
'I am totally in favor of women's health and if they can put their money where their mouth is, and stop the abortion services at Planned Parenthood entirely, we can talk about government funding for many of the other aspects of the organization that do a lot of good,' the Trump statement read.
Planned Parenthood became a hot button issue in the presidential race after an anti-abortion group, the Center for Medical Progress, released several videos showing the organization's workers talking about selling aborted fetuses for research purposes.
Planned Parenthood said the videos were edited to cast its employees and its operations in a bad light. But the Center for Medical Progress released complete, raw videos of its undercover work alongside its edited presentations.
Since then the GOP has tried to cut off the $500 million in federal dollars gong toward Planned Parenthood, but haven't had enough votes in Congress.
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