Ten days before the 2016 election, I was standing in a cinderblock room in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with Cecile Richards and other leaders of prominent women’s groups, all of us out to make the case for Hillary Clinton’s historic run for President.
Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67. Richards died Monday at home in New York “surrounded by family and her ever-loyal dog,
Richards was a major force in Texas and national politics. Like her mother, former governor Ann Richards, Cecile spent most of her life rallying for progressive causes. Richards was a labor organizer, a staffer to Representative Nancy Pelosi, and then president of Planned Parenthood from 2006 to 2018.
What her famous mother did as Texas governor, Cecile carried on by standing up a range of progressive and pro-choice organizations.
Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.
A former Planned Parenthood president and staunch women's rights advocate Cecile Richards has died at the age of 67.
As we mourn the loss of activist, organizer, and former president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, I offer words of wisdom she shared with me in our interviews over the years.
She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018.
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We remember Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood and reproductive rights leader, with Shefali Luthra, reproductive health reporter with The 19th.
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