Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.

She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018. Cecile Richards in 2018. During her tenure at Planned Parenthood the organization ...

She was a fierce advocate for reproductive rights and a powerful voice in the ongoing fight for safe and legal abortion access

Cecile Richards, a lifelong advocate for women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 years, has died at the age of 67 after a battle with brain cancer, her family said in a statement Monday ...

The longtime advocate for women’s rights died at age 67 Gary Gershoff/Getty Cecile Richards ... in as 47th President of the United States. The statement from Richards' family continued with ...

(AP Photo/Makiya Seminera, File)(AP/Makiya Seminera) Cecile Richards ... Texas-born Richards will be remembered as one of the United States’ most prominent advocates for abortion access in ...

The activist and organizer, who made Planned Parenthood a political powerhouse, was diagnosed with glioblastoma a year and half ago.

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.

What her famous mother did as Texas governor, Cecile carried on by standing up a range of progressive and pro-choice organizations.

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

It turned out there was a good reason. FBI Director James Comey had just sent his infamous letter to Congress reopening the official investigation into Hillary’s emails, throwing the election into turmoil in the home stretch. Hillary and her top advisers were huddling on the plane, trying to figure out how to weather this one last blow.