Planned Parenthood CEO and president, Alexis McGill Johnson, shares how we can find hope and strength in Cecile Richards's legacy in Trump's second term.
The activist modernized Planned Parenthood and transformed the organization into a formidable political player.
Cecile Richards, a national leader for women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67.
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.
Former Glamour Editor in Chief Cindi Leive remembers a two decades long friendship with the titan of the reproductive rights movement Cecile Richards.
She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018.
Two months before her death, Richards was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Joe Biden.
What her famous mother did as Texas governor, Cecile carried on by standing up a range of progressive and pro-choice organizations.
Cecile Richards, a longtime reproductive rights and feminist activist and former president of Planned Parenthood, has died, her family announced Monday. She was 67. Richards was diagnosed in 2023 with a glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor.
"Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives," her family said in a post on social media.
Cecile Richards, a feminist activist and former president of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling cancer, her family said. Richards was 67. "This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog ...
Former Planned Parenthood president and lifelong reproductive rights activist Cecile Richards has died. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2023.