The activist modernized Planned Parenthood and transformed the organization into a formidable political player.

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

Cecile Richards, a women’s rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical ...

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

Former Glamour Editor in Chief Cindi Leive remembers a two decades long friendship with the titan of the reproductive rights ...

She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018.

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

Richards was a major force in Texas and national politics. Like her mother, former governor Ann Richards, Cecile spent most ...

Cecile Richards, a longtime reproductive rights and feminist activist and former president of Planned Parenthood, has died, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Cecile Richards, a feminist activist and former president of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling cancer, her ...