Saturday Night Live host Scarlett Johansson played Ivanka Trump in the March 11 episode, introducing us to Ivanka's new perfume Complicit, "the fragrance for the woman who could stop all of this, but won't." The ad continued, showing the First Daughter putting on lipstick in the mirror and seeing the reflection of her father, President Trump. "She doesn't crave the spotlight, but we see her. Oh, how we see her."

Complicit's tag line may be giving Ivanka too much credit for her ability to influence her father, but it's timely in aggressively hitting the role of Ivanka's agency in advancing her father's agenda.

"She's a woman who knows what she wants—and knows what she's doing," said SNL. Increasingly, large numbers of Independent, Democrat and even educated Republican women realize that Ivanka will remain publicly silent on her father's plan to defend Planned Parenthood.

Silence Is Thy Name, Ivanka

Ivanka Trump was not quiet about assuring American women that her father is a 'feminist', even though that word is heresy in alt-right and Republican right-wing circles. Yet, as four-million people marched across America on January 21 in support of The Women's March, Ivanka was silent.

The SNL sketch poked fun at Ivank's feminist father declarations, seeing instead what many women refer to as Trump's faux-feminism. "A feminist, an advocate, a champion for women, but like, how?" the commercial asked. "She's loyal, devoted, but probably should have bounced after the whole Access Hollywood thing. Oh well."

The Trump daughter is silently Complicit over Trumpcare's controversial prescription to get rid of popular Obamacare provisions that provide birth control at no cost and offer protections to mothers in the workforce, who, under the A.C.A., are guaranteed access to lactation rooms and provided with breast pumps free of charge.

Ivanka is silent on the topic of defunding Planned Parenthood, creating a health care crisis for poor and lower-income women in America. No problem. Here, have a spritz of Complicit. The First Daughter is Complicit when Republicans assure women that other health care clinics can meet the needs of these women, without the complications of delivering 3 percent of services as abortions. This argument is a false narrative.

The Washington Post recently analyzed Paul Ryan's claim that for every Planned Parenthood clinic, 20 health centers provide women's health care.

Both Planned Parenthood and federally qualified health centers provide family planning services. But there is no comparison between the contraception services at federally qualified health centers, in total and individually and Planned Parenthood, according to the Congressional Research Service. Planned Parenthood provides three times the contraception services and often in areas where poor women are not served by federally qualified health centers. In 2014, the health centers in total provided 1.3 million contraceptive services and Planned Parenthood clinics provided 3.6 million. Rural health clinics are not required to provide services to low-income patients. Nor are they required to offer a sliding-fee scale. Many do not offer family planning services in the very red states in which Planned Parenthood is the only source of reproductive health services.

No Planned Parenthood Silence for Bush Women

Granted, Barbara Pierce Bush is no longer living in the White House, but the daughter of pro-life former President George W. Bush, gave the keynote speech at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in Forth Worth on March 1, with the message that given the current administration's positions, supporting Planned Parenthood is more important than ever.

During her address, Bush said she was inspired to pursue a career in global health issues following a trip to East and Central Africa when she was 21, writes the Texas Tribune.

“Our belief that health is a human right is not reflected in today’s reality,” she said. “Millions of people's potentials and futures are undermined simply because they do not have access to the health care that they deserve. We have these incredible tools to solve problems, yet health systems are weak, and we need new leaders to fix them.”

Bush also said she was frustrated that people are still having to make a “case for why women’s health matters in 2017.” However, she said she was inspired by the people who came to Wednesday’s event.

First Lady Laura Bush made it quietly clear on more than one occasion that she supported Planned Parenthood. But not Ivanka Trump. Mum's the word for the Complicit woman.

Daddy's Girl

Most women agree that Ivanka Trump's situation is complex. Ivanka has been living by Trumpian rules her entire life, writes Vanity Fair.

The younger Trump, after all, survived a divorce that would have turned most kids into, at best, Paris Hilton, and then built a successful branded merchandise empire for herself by somehow elevating the Trump name—delicately ignoring her father’s history of adultery and womanizing and pageant-hosting, and becoming an icon of sorts for working moms. During the campaign, Ivanka displayed a remarkable discipline, too. She was notably silent during her father’s attack on former beauty queen Alicia Mochado and his cable foe Megyn Kelly, as well as the various women who accused him of sexual assault. Yet she used her keynote at the Republican National Convention to speak about the need for paid family leave and equal pay for women, as she did onstage at a rally in suburban Philadelphia a couple months later. In a way that was almost admirable, and certainly illustrative to other aides, she made Trump work for her.

When Ivanka Trump met privately with women lawmakers in February, they were only Republican women, writes the New York Times. This is noteworthy because Democratic and Republican women in Congress continue to have a tradition of meeting monthly for dinner in an effort to find common ground.

The meeting was one of many ways that Ms. Trump has been working with Republicans to advance a policy agenda all her own, one focused on helping young mothers. The effort has placed her in an exceptional, and possibly sticky, position — working on issues traditionally championed by Democrats by forging alliances with Republican women.

Does Ivanka Trump Know Poor and Lower Income Women Exist?

Ivanka Trump aligns herself with a vision of feminism that is predominantly white and elitist.

In the past, Ivanka Trump was aligned with New York Senator Kirstin Gillibrand who has introduced a parental leave bill that would provide workers with up to 12 weeks of partial income when they take time off to have babies or take care of sick members of their family. That proposal would be paid for through employer payroll contribution increases, and is therefore heresy to Republicans.

According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center Trump's current child care policy -- crafted under the watchful eye of First Daughter Ivanka --- 70% of the benefits will go to families that make $100,000 or more. And 25% will go to people earning $200,000 or more.

"Trump has identified a real challenge affecting working families, but his proposal would do little or nothing to help them," Elaine Maag, an expert at the Tax Policy Center, told CNNMoney. A typical middle class family earns about $56,000.

The benefits for Ivanka's $500 billion plan help families with with sufficient income that deducting the average cost of health care in their states gets them a hefty tax refund. Many working classes pay little or nothing in federal taxes because their incomes are so low and haven't advanced in decades.

"Child care is a major crisis in America, but the Trump plan is badly designed," says Ajay Chaudry, who served in the Obama administration and is the author of "Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality."

The Tax Policy Center says a couple earning $30,000 a year would get $574 back, writes CNN Money. It's a modest amount compared to the average child care bill. Stay-at-home moms or dads would not be eligible for the tax credit, but wealthier stay-at-home parents can take advantage of the deduction.

Putting a four-year-old in full-time care ranges from $4,439 a year in Mississippi to a whopping $17,863 a year in Washington D.C., according to Child Care Aware.

But others, like women's rights champion Anne-Marie Slaughter, say any progress on affordable child care should be applauded.

We disagree. For the top third of Americans to get this benefit in a form that only benefits top earners seems unconscionable after the election we just survived. One day poor people in this country will just rise up and revolt.

Declining Goodwill for Ivanka

As for Ivanka Trump, it's fair to say that women's voices are increasingly being raised against her lack of any consideration for people of modest means. The Republican actions against Planned Parenthood and mandating that health insurance pay for contraception are singularly the top guarantee of keeping a poor woman from advancing herself and her family economically.

The pro-life Republican party has a very narrow definition of "conscience" in their own legislative actions. And they totally ignore the reality that for Hillary voters, our "conscience" and values mandate that we help poor women advance themselves and their families in an increasingly difficult employment market for less educated Americans.

Erin Gloria Ryan wrote a scathing piece for The Daily Beast called 'Ivanka Is Where Feminism Goes to Die.

On one hand, Ivanka’s duality is incredibly frustrating to women who think and opine about feminism and who are doing it right for a living. At The Guardian, Jessica Valenti writes that Ivanka’s feminism is just a “salve” designed to cool the sting of Donald Trump’s piping hot misogyny on a public yearning to be soothed. Over at BuzzFeed, Anne Helen Peterson takes a deep dive into Ivanka’s aesthetics-reliant presence and how it serves to protect the future of her brand from the damage her association with her father’s pussy-grabbing, parent-deporting, toilet-tweeting can do. Last month in The New York Times, Jill Filipovic called out Ivanka’s “fake feminism,” writing that Trump’s eldest daughter is “a kind of post-feminist huckster, selling us traditional femininity and support of male power wrapped up in a feminist bow.” Ivanka Trump drives people who have actually done some thinking about feminism absolutely nuts.

But these are all liberal websites, Republicans protest. How about this then?

When Town & Country writes a headline asking 'Does Ivanka Trump's New Child-Care Plan Help the Parents Who Need It Most? (The answer is NO . . . NO . . . NO), you know that those polite women's magazines are changing. Historically Town & Country has been a life of the rich and famous, society-gourmet publication. In 2016, Town & Country got some backbone, recognizing that issues of social justice impact the totality of America's civic life.

Get real, Ivanka. We are all watching you with plummeting expectations. At least have the guts to acknowledge when your US President Daddy and you don't agree. Send a message of some kind that you have done your best for regular Americans and not America's upper class. Otherwise you are a bona fide member of Complicit perfume users, and real feminists and supporters of advancement for ALL American women don't like your odor.