Cecile Richards, a national leader for women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was ...

Ten days before the 2016 election, I was standing in a cinderblock room in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with Cecile Richards and other ...

The former Planned Parenthood president and lifelong champion of women’s rights passed away Monday from brain cancer.

As we mourn the loss of activist, organizer, and former president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, I offer words of ...

In her 20s, she organized campaigns for labor unions and working-class communities, and even helped her mother, Ann Richards ... it backed Hillary Clinton. John Anderson//Getty Images After ...

Ann Richards ... in her footsteps," Clinton wrote. "I'm thinking of her family and friends today and holding you close to my heart. Former President Barack Obama praised Richards' dedication ...

Two months before her death, Richards was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by then-President Joe Biden.

Ann Richards, speaks during the Democratic National ... during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven ...

The women in Richards’ family were no strangers to political power: Her mother was the late Gov. Ann Richards of Texas and ...

during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) CONCORD, N.H. — Cecile Richards, a national ...

FILE - Cecile Richards ... Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) FILE - Cecile Richards, former President of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Texas Gov ...