CONCORD, N.H. — Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women's rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67. Richards died Monday at home ...

It was Trump’s three Supreme Court appointees who were instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, setting back women's reproductive rights.

Cecile Richards, former President of Planned Parenthood and daughter of the late Texas Gov. Ann Richards, speaks on Aug. 21, 2024, during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. via ...

Former President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards speaks on stage during the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

Cecile Richards: “Roe v. Wade didn’t create the idea of abortion. Abortion existed before it was legal.

In 1970, a young Dallas lawyer, Sarah Weddington, filed suit on behalf of abortion-seeker Norma McCorvey, the case decided by the Supreme Court as Roe v. Wade in 1973.

Ex-Planned Parenthood president, women's rights advocate Cecile Richards dies at 67 "Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives,” her family said.

Richards got her start in political organizing early in life. As a child, she worked alongside her mother, campaigning for Sarah Weddington — the lawyer who argued Roe v.

Cecile Richards, a women’s rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical inflection point over reproductive freedom, has died, her family said ...