Barbara Pierce Bush, the elder fraternal twin daughter of President George W. Bush, will be the keynote speaker at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser [1] in Texas next week. Although her father is a Republican and publicly anti-abortion [2], Barbara revealed she does not identify with the GOP in a 2010 People [3] magazine interview. "I don't really label myself as Republican or Democrat," Barbara said. Her sister, Jenna Bush Hager, went on to say, "We're both very independent thinkers."
As co-founder and president of Global Health Corps, a nonprofit organization which is "focused on health equity [5]," Barbara's company also partners with several Planned Parenthood branches. In a 2016 interview with The New York Times, Barbara praised Planned Parenthood [6] as an "exceptional organization." Her mother, former First Lady Laura Bush, has also gone on the record [7] to voice her support for legal abortions. The Planned Parenthood fundraiser is set to take place in North Texas on March 1.