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Cecile Richards
1957 - 2025
Cecile Richards
1957 - 2025
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BORN
1957
DIED
2025
Cecile Richards Obituary
Cecile Richards was a women's rights activist who served as president of both the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, as well as founding Supermajority, an organization devoted to bringing more women into politics.
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13 Entries
Diana DiRienzo
May 23, 2025
RIP to the Good Trouble maker. A beautiful sequel to her mother's legacy. Congratulations on a life well lived. May love and glory surround you and your mother throughout eternity.
JH
February 6, 2025
May God give you strength and comfort during this difficult time. She will be greatly missed and touched the lives of so many. Sending sincere condolences to her family and friends.
Tonya Moss
February 6, 2025
Sincere gratitude to Cecile Richard's. Thank you for your dedication to health care through Plan Parenthood.
Paige Wojtyla
February 3, 2025
Dearly missed by Canadians and people around the world for your tireless work and dedication. God Bless.
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Mr.Jr.
January 28, 2025
My Condolences.
Pleasant Foy, Jr.
January 27, 2025
My sincerest condolences to the Richard's and Adam families!!
R.I.P Ceciil
...Pleasant Foy, Jr.
Elizabeth Bawol
January 25, 2025
I don´t really have the right words for this world´s loss of Cecile Richards. By all accounts, someone who inspired and led with vision, whose core principles and values guided her every move, who managed to remember the name of everyone she encountered, their children and grandchildren. There was no one who didn´t benefit from her respectful treatment, even those trying to frame and judge her in a Congressional hearing.
She believed in women, in people, to know their own minds and bodies. She believed deeply in equality. She believed in and fought fiercely for freedom and autonomy, and wanted us to listen to the stories of those robbed of it, so we could understand each other better, judge less, and live as the best versions of ourselves.
Brilliant. Warm, kind, fair-minded. A mother. An activist. A hero. She believed in all of us. She was a champion for all of us.
Knowing Cecile just a little changed my life. May we all make trouble when trouble is required of us. She made me more brave, she taught me and others to question everything and take risks and stand up for justice. May we disrupt the norms we experience with the same respect, sheer resolve, fierce passion, and kindness of spirit.
Rest in peace and power. You were a force of nature, Cecile Richards. I am proud to have lived at the same time as you and been inspired to join your fight.
We will carry on your legacy and one day this country will be ready for change.
RR
January 23, 2025
Prayers and condolences to the Richards family, May God be with you in your time of loss.
Serena Neslusan LMHC
January 22, 2025
She was a model of love, compassion and generosity until her very last moments with us on earth. She will be missed.
Karen Dunnam
January 22, 2025
Carparks
January 22, 2025
Thank you, Cecile, for being such a strong leader for women. May your family have the comfort of knowing that you improved the world.
Chris
January 22, 2025
I offer my sincere condolences to the family of Cecile Richards. We look to the future when our Lord will end all causes of sorrow.
Betty Davis
January 22, 2025
Sorry to hear of the passing of Cecile. She will be remembered for thinking of the rights of others. May God comfort your family and give you peace during this time of sadness.
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