Story highlights Trump: "Millions of women have been helped by Planned Parenthood"

Maintains pledge to defund the organization if it continues offer abortion services

(CNN) Donald Trump on Tuesday night once again sought to strike a softer tone on Planned Parenthood, paying tribute to its "very good work for millions of women" while also keeping up a threat to cut off federal funding to the organization if it continues to offer abortion services.

With Super Tuesday victories in his back pocket, Trump at a press conference in South Florida pledged to expand the base of the Republican Party, calling himself a "common sense conservative" while assuring voters he considered women's health issues "very important."

"Planned Parenthood has done very good work for millions of women," he said. "But we're not going to allow and we're not going to fund, as long as you have the abortion going on at Planned Parenthood. We understand that, and I've said it loud and clear."

"We'll see what happens," he continued, "but I've had thousands of letters from women that have been helped. This wasn't a set-up, this was people writing letters."

Of his tack on Planned Parenthood, Trump conceded it was "not a perfect conservative view," but offered a counterweight by promising to be "more conservative than anybody on the military, on taking care of our vets, on the border, on the wall."

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