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 national leader for women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67.

The former Planned Parenthood president and lifelong champion of women’s rights passed away Monday from brain cancer.

Four years later, Ann Richards lost her reelection ... In the run-up to the 2016 election, Ms. Richards supported Hillary Clinton. If Clinton won, Ms. Richards had been expected to step down ...

In her 20s, she organized campaigns for labor unions and working-class communities, and even helped her mother, Ann Richards ... it backed Hillary Clinton. John Anderson//Getty Images After ...

Ann Richards, speaks during the Democratic National ... during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven ...

during which Planned Parenthood endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) CONCORD, N.H. — Cecile Richards, a national ...

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As we mourn the loss of activist, organizer, and former president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, I offer words of wisdom she shared with me in our interviews over the years.

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

Cecile Richards, an influential figure in the women’s rights movement and former head of Planned Parenthood, died of brain cancer at the age of 67.

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.