An excerpt of Cecile Richards remarks on MSNBC on Wednesday. Trump and Planned Parenthood president agree on one thing

The head of Planned Parenthood and Donald Trump agree on one thing — that the women’s reproductive health organization does good work.

“This is one thing I agree with Donald Trump on, is that Planned Parenthood does amazing work for two and a half million patients every single year,” Cecile Richards said to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday.


Richards was responding to praise the Republican candidate had heaped on the organization for their work on women’s reproductive health issues as long as they don’t directly correlate with abortion services.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday Trump said, “They do some very good work. Cervical cancer, lots of women’s issue, women’s health issues are taken care of.”

“Planned Parenthood does a really good job at a lot of different areas. But not on abortion. So I’m not going to fund it if it’s doing the abortion. I am not going to fund it,” Trump continued.

But praise for the organization is where their agreement ends.

“I think the disturbing thing is that Donald Trump as well as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have said if they were president, they would end women’s access to family planning, to cancer screening, to basic affordable health care as well as overturning the Affordable Care Act, which is now covering family planning and other preventive care for 55 million women,” Richards continued. “That’s what’s really at stake here. And so, I appreciate his kind words. We’re very proud of our work, but I think women in this country and families and men are going to be very concerned about a president who wants to roll back access to affordable health care in America.”

Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the organization’s advocacy arm, has endorsed former secretary of state Hillary Clinton for president. It is the group’s first primary endorsement.