Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.
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 morning. Richards, the eldest daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as an activist and political force for women across Texas and the United States.
Richards died at home Monday, just hours before Trump was set to be inaugurated for his second term. She was at home with her"We invite you to put on some New Orleans jazz, gather with friends and family over a good meal, and remember something she said a lot over the last year: 'It's not hard to imagine future generations one day asking, 'When there was so much at stake for our country, what did you do? The only acceptable answer is: Everything we could," the family wrote.
After George W. Bush defeated Gov. Richards for a second term, Cecile got involved in grassroots organizing in Texas, starting by challenging the steady conservative takeover of school boards and curriculum. She founded the Texas Freedom Alliance, which organized Texans around public education and religious liberty, and the Texas Faith Network, a group of religious leaders speaking out about the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention.
When Richards took over the organization, it was the largest provider of reproductive health care in the country. But she recalled Jill June, the director of Planned Parenthood in Iowa, telling her the organization’s real challenge lay in the political arena. Things came to a head in 2015, when an anti-abortion group secretly recorded and released videos appearing to show Planned Parenthood employees in California discussing the illegal sale of fetal remains. While apologizing for the employee’s tone, Richards vehemently denied that Planned Parenthood ever profited from the sale of fetal remains. In a contentious, hours-long Congressional hearing led by Rep.
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