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Watch Live: Planned Parenthood's President Slams Republican Health Care Bill As "Anti-Woman"

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Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, in response to a tweet from President Donald Trump, called the health care bill that the House is scheduled to vote on Friday “the most anti-woman bill that I have ever seen.”

“It’s wildly unpopular,” she said.

Richards' comment came during a BuzzFeed News interview with Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith.

The health care bill that's scheduled to come up for crucial vote in the House today — though it's unclear when — includes a provision to remove all federal funding from the women's health non-profit. Currently, no federal funds are permitted to be used on abortions — they go toward reimbursing Planned Parenthood for covering other services under Medicaid, like STI tests and cancer screenings.

It's unclear if the bill — which would repeal and replace President Obama's Affordable Care Act — has the votes to pass, as several far-right and moderate members say they will oppose the bill.

“It’s pretty clear they would do anything to pass this disastrous plan…to see the photographs of the Freedom Caucus, this supposedly pro-family group literally bargaining away the rights to maternity care benefits, birth control benefits,” Richards said.

President Trump's tweet on Friday morning used the Planned Parenthood defunding as a wedge to get holdouts from the Freedom Caucus — several staunchly conservative representatives who widely oppose the bill — to embrace it.

“The irony is that the Freedom Caucus, which is very pro-life and against Planned Parenthood, allows P.P. to continue if they stop this plan!” Trump tweeted.

When asked about Ivanka Trump's silence on the health care bill, Richards called it “deafening.”

And when asked if she thinks the abortion rate will increase if the bill passes, she said, “It has every other time and every other place” in countries where abortion was made unavailable.

LINK: Planned Parenthood Is Not Sure It’s Going To Be Okay

LINK: Trump Gives Republicans An Ultimatum On Health Care Bill: Vote Or We’re Done

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