Fiorina slams Planned Parenthood in fundraising pitch

Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina is fundraising off of Planned Parenthood’s criticism of her candidacy, telling supporters the group has labeled her a “threat” to women.

“Carly has been a trailblazer, a grandmother, and an advocate for empowering women around the world. But, because (like most Americans) she believes every life has value and potential, Planned Parenthood decided that she’s somehow ‘anti-women’,” Sarah Isgur Flores, Fiorina’s deputy campaign manager, wrote in a fundraising pitch.

{mosads}“The entire Left — from Planned Parenthood to Hillary Clinton — thinks ‘feminism’ means telling women how to think, and how to act, and how to vote.”

A poll last month from the group’s political arm, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, included 11 likely GOP presidential candidates. The blog post announcing that poll panned the GOP field as in a “race to the bottom” on women’s issues and asked people to vote on which candidate “poses the worst threat for women.”

Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s president, Cecile Richards, panned Fiorina’s entrance into the race back in May with a statement that said that Fiorina “would roll women’s health and rights back many decades.” 

Isgur Flores asks supporters who don’t agree with Planned Parenthood’s pro-abortion rights stance to donate $9 to Fiorina’s campaign, noting that “Carly didn’t shatter the highest glass ceiling in business by falling into line.”

Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner who is also seeking to become the first female president, also regularly speaks about breaking the presidential glass ceiling.

One of her most memorable lines from her 2008 concession speech is about putting 18 million cracks in the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” a reference to the number of votes she won during the primary.