Cecile Richards, the dynamic former president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and one of the country's most well-known defenders of abortion rights, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 67.
She was diagnosed in 2023 with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, her family said in a statement. A former political organizer, Ms. Richards was a daughter of former Gov. Ann Richards of Texas.
Ms. Richards was the president of Planned Parenthood from 2006 to 2018, overseeing the country's largest provider of reproductive health care and s*x education during a period in which the organization was under sharp attack by conservatives, particularly under the Republican administration of President George W. Bush and President Trump's first. She helped fend off a raft of attempts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to pass laws to restrict access to abortion or to cut funding for it.
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