With a new memoir, former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards offers lessons for a new generation of abortion activists.
U.S. For more than a decade, Cecile Richards was the public face of the abortion rights movement. Wearing her trademark blue—and sometimes hot-pink—suits, the head of Planned Parenthood saw the national women’s health organization through a tumultuous time, from escalating death threats on abortion providers to increased protests of clinics to the viral controversy over fake videos that alleged her group profited from fetal remains. Then, last year, she stepped down.
Richards spoke to Newsweek about the Trump resistance, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and misogyny as an organizing principle.What’s become abundantly clear is that this administration and a lot of politicians nationwide are set on not only ending access to safe and legal abortion, but ending access to birth control and preventive health services.
Women contributed $100 million more to candidates in 2018 than when Hillary Clinton ran for the presidency. Women are becoming the grassroots funding base for politics, and in every single campaign, the volunteers knocking on doors and registering voters were overwhelmingly women. There is no instruction manual for this, but thousands of women are showing up as if to say: We are the ones we have been waiting for. To me, that is the way we will have to solve this.
I guess I watched to see if this administration would have better policies than you might expect. And the truth is they have been worse, which erases whatever credit Ivanka might get for behind-the-scenes conversations about child care. How can you advocate for child care and, on the other hand, take away millions of women’s access to great exams and cancer screening? How can you talk about child care policies and take away children from mothers at borders? You can’t have it both ways.
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