Ten days before the 2016 election, I was standing in a cinderblock room in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with Cecile Richards and other leaders of prominent women’s groups, all of us out to make the case for Hillary Clinton’s historic run for President.

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 Monday in a statement.

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

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

A former Planned Parenthood president and staunch women's rights advocate Cecile Richards has died at the age of 67.

Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.

Activist and former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards dies at 67. A cause of death was not immediately given, but it was previously reported that she was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2023.

"We’ve been investing in young people for the last 12 years, and now it’s really important that we make space for them to lead.”

Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood, died Monday of an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 67. Mika Brzezinski remembers Richards. Reproductive rights advocate Amanda Zura

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

Women's rights activist and former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, 67, died at her home surrounded by family and her dog Ollie on Monday morning, her family announced.