One area where Ivanka has undeniably changed: abortion, an issue that helped deliver the evangelical vote for the president in the last election. Social conservatives saw the New York feminist as a question mark. Did she share her father’s view? She had danced around the issue, declining to take a public position, and a secret meeting with then-Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards in 2017 only heightened fears that Ivanka may have swayed the president away from a campaign promise.
“I respect all sides of a very personal and sensitive discussion,” Ivanka said when asked about the contentious issue, “but I am also a mother of three children, and parenthood affected me in a profound way in terms of how I think about these things.” She continued, for the first time ever saying, “I am pro-life, and unapologetically so.”
A White House aide followed up to clarify that Ivanka’s answer was both a...
