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

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.

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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Only two people in the planet have been through the embarrassment of losing a presidential election to Donald Trump - Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. And in the weeks following her bruising ...

Cecile Richards first noticed that something fundamental had shifted in America’s politics more than 30 years ago. After her mother, the progressive Texas governor Ann Richards, was defeated in ...

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