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

Cecile Richards, an abortion rights activist who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Joe Biden in November, has died.

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

Planned Parenthood hosts a protest at the Arizona State Capitol in anticipation of bans to healthcare and reproductive rights by Donald Trump.

She was a fierce advocate for reproductive rights and a powerful voice in the ongoing fight for safe and legal abortion access

Richards was a Waco native and the daughter of the late Gov. Ann Richards. She was also Beto O'Rourke's national finance chair during his run for governor.

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

It’s named for mayoral hopeful and former U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, who talked about her abortion during a House Committee hearing in 2021.

Trump pardoned around 1,500 defendants, including six officers from the Seattle Police Department who formed the largest known cop contingent at the January 6 Capitol riot. With a stroke of his pen, Trump erased all consequences for his supporters,

Cecile Richards, a longtime reproductive rights and feminist activist and former president of Planned Parenthood, has died, her family announced Monday. She was 67. Richards was diagnosed in 2023 with a glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor.