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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From former President Barack Obama to pro-life leaders like Lila Rose, activists on both sides of the abortion debate have ...

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

Cecile Richards died Monday after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, her family said in a statement.

Former Planned Parenthood president and lifelong reproductive rights activist Cecile Richards has died. She was diagnosed ...

Cecile Richards, former leader of Planned Parenthood and 2015 Glamour Woman of the Year, has died at 67 years old.