It turned out there was a good reason. FBI Director James Comey had just sent his infamous letter to Congress reopening the official investigation into Hillary’s emails, throwing the election into turmoil in the home stretch. Hillary and her top advisers were huddling on the plane, trying to figure out how to weather this one last blow.

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

Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood and an outspoken advocate for abortion and women's rights, has passed away.

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

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.

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.

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

Richards, the daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, spoke at the Democratic National Convention last year.

Cecile Richards passed away from glioblastoma at 67. Discover her inspiring journey as an activist and her legacy of advocating for women's rights.

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

It was a sticky June day last summer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and lifelong organizer and reproductive rights activist Cecile Richards was in her element. At an abortion storytelling event she had spearheaded in response to Louisiana’s near total abortion ban, she listened to, encouraged, and thanked woman after woman who shared their experiences.