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.

After a devastating cancer diagnosis, the reproductive rights champion fought a battle on two fronts. Here, printed in full for the first time, is a conversation from last summer with the icon, who died on Monday at age 67.

Cecile Richards, then-president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, speaks to hundreds of supporters at a rally in Republic Square Park in downtown Austin in 2013. Richards died Monday at the age of 67 following a battle with brain cancer.