Kanye West has denounced a US parenting organisation that has been promoted by his wife Kim Kardashian, as a conspiracy.
The 43-year-old rapper spoke out in his first interview since declaring his plans to run for the Presidency and hit out at Planned Parenthood.
The organisation says it provides essential health care services like STD testing and treatment, birth control, well-woman exams, cancer screening and prevention, abortion, hormone therapy and infertility services.
Kanye has denounced it as 'the devil's work' as he claims he is "following the word of the bible" despite wife Kim's support of Planned Parenthood and her pro-choice views.
Speaking to Forbes about his 2020 presidential campaign, Kanye revealed that he was running for office because he had received a message from God as the born again Christian set out some of his thoughts.
One of his main claims was that Planned Parenthood was the work of "white supremacists" which has prompted a swift response from the organisation.
Kanye said: “I am pro-life because I’m following the word of the bible. Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work.”
Planned Parenthood’s Director of Black Leadership and Engagement, Nia Martin-Robinson, hit back at Kanye's remarks in a statement.
She said: "Black women are free to make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have access to the best medical care available.
“Any insinuation that abortion is Black genocide is offensive and infantilising.
"The real threat to Black communities’ safety, health, and lives stems from lack of access to quality, affordable health care, police violence and the criminalisation of reproductive health care by anti-abortion opposition.”
Keeping Up With The Kardashians fans will recall that Kim was joined by her sisters Khloe and Kourtney at a Planned Parenthood clinic for a visit in 2017.
Kim publicly voiced her support at the time on Instagram, sharing a photo of them at one of the clinics, captioning it with: "My sisters and I visited Planned Parenthood recently and learned that the House of Representatives forced through a bill that strips health care coverage from millions of people and raises health care costs, including Planned Parenthood patients.
“They are such an amazing place that provides so much to so many! #istandwithpp.”
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