Recode Decode: Cecile Richards, president, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (Code Conference 2017)

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Technology, Business

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🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In this special bonus episode from the 2017 Code Conference, Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how the nonprofit has dealt with controversy and political opposition under President Trump. Republicans in Washington are attempting to limit the organization, which Richards says would undermine access to local health services and cause the rates of STIs and abortions to go up. Planned Parenthood will continue to exist even if the GOP's health care bill passes, she says, but it's still fighting to remain a public benefit, with funds for most of its services being reimbursed by the government. Richards also talks about how her team uses social media and texting and why she wants to use drones to air-drop birth control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Ricoh D-code listeners. We've got a bonus episode for you today. It's an
0:05.0	interview I did at the 2017 Code Conference. If you like this one, then good news.
0:09.9	We have a lot more of them over at Ricoh Replay. That's one of our other
0:13.6	podcasts and just like this show, it's all free. Here's an interview with
0:17.9	Cecil Richards, the president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
0:22.0	So this is someone I wanted to bring on also a long time. It's a very
0:26.6	controversial issue. This organization has been in the news a lot lately and
0:31.1	we are going to talk about tech issues around this. I know it seems unusual, but
0:34.7	there's some really interesting things going on in medicine and other areas.
0:38.3	And so I thought it'd be really interesting to bring on probably one of the
0:41.3	more controversial nonprofits in our country right now for all kinds of
0:44.8	reasons. And this woman is amazing and we'll be able to sort of give us some
0:49.5	interesting insights into what's going on in Washington and also around the
0:53.5	country around healthcare. Cecil Richards from Planned Parenthood.
1:02.5	Thank you.
1:06.5	Oh, so good to have you here.
1:10.5	Yeah. I know it is great. We were just talking about just like it's great to get out
1:14.7	of the hellscape that is Washington. Hellscape is my expression, right? But you've
1:19.0	had a tough year at Planned Parenthood. Why don't you give us an update of where
1:23.6	you where things are because Planned Parenthood has sort of become just in the
1:29.5	middle of every controversy around the Trump administration and also people who
1:35.0	support Planned Parenthood. Well, so it's true we've been I mean it's been a
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