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Rachel Hernandez chants with abortion rights supporters as they protest SB 8 in front of Edinburg City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in Edinburg, Texas. The nation's most far-reaching curb on abortions since they were legalized a half-century ago took effect Wednesday in Texas, with the Supreme Court silent on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold.(Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Cecile Richards: Court’s Texas move could mean end of Roe

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2017, file photo, President Planned Parenthood Federation of America Cecile Richards speak to the crowd during the women's march rally in Washington. Richards and two other women of the nation's most influential activists are launching a new organization that aims to harness the political power of women to influence elections and shape local and national policy priorities. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Cecile Richards, Alicia Garza, Ai-jen Poo form women’s political group

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2017 file photo, Cecile Richards attends the 2017 Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York. Richards steps down Tuesday from the helm of Planned Parenthood, a position she has held for 12 years, and her parting message to fellow women is: Get involved, and don't wait. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Cecile Richards’ message: Now is the time to get involved

By JOCELYN NOVECK - Associated Press

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards waves after speaking during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Richards steps down Tuesday, May 1, from the helm of Planned Parenthood, a position she has held for 12 years, and her parting message to fellow women is: Get involved, and don't wait. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Cecile Richards Planned Parenthood exit cause disarray at abortion provider

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

President Planned Parenthood Federation of America Cecile Richards speak to the crowd during the women's march rally, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood president, to speak at Catholic university

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Former Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis speaks in support of then-Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to South Dakotans as the candidate who would look out for women to the benefit of the nation's economy, Thursday, May 26, 2016, at the opening of Clinton's first South Dakota office. (AP Photo/James Nord) ** FILE **

Wendy Davis leaves door open to top job at Planned Parenthood

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 26, 2016 file photo, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards waves after speaking during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. On Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, Richards, who led Planned Parenthood through 12 tumultuous years, said she is stepping down as its president. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cecile Richards stepping down as Planned Parenthood leader

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards speaks to the crowd during a women's march rally in Washington on Jan. 21, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Cecile Richards to step down as Planned Parenthood head

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Planned Parenthood is expanding into alternative care as fewer women undergo abortions and patients seek health care services elsewhere. (Associated Press/File)

Planned Parenthood enters transgender market

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, from left, appears with actress Allison Janney and producer Gemma Baker from the CBS comedy series, &quot;Mom,&quot; at Planned Parenthood offices in New York on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. Janney and Baker delivered a a check for $250,000, which they said would have otherwise been spent on a promotional campaign for “Mom” to woo Emmy judges. (AP Photo/Frazier Moore)

‘Mom’ star Janney visits, donates to Planned Parenthood

By FRAZIER MOORE - Associated Press

Hillary Clinton to receive ‘Champion of the Century’ honor by Planned Parenthood

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, listens during a meeting between President Donald Trump and women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Ivanka Trump met privately with Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Illustration on Planned Parenthood's business of abortion by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Defunding Planned Parenthood must take precedence

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards speaks to the crowd during a women's march rally in Washington on Jan. 21, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Planned Parenthood’s nonpartisan joke

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

In this March 1, 1934 file photo, Margaret Sanger, who founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, speaks before a Senate committee to advocate for federal birth-control legislation in Washington. Sanger's legal appeals eventually prompted federal courts to grant physicians the right to give advice about birth-control methods. Sanger founded two organizations that later merged to form the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (AP Photo) **FILE**

Planned Parenthood celebrates centennial as its foes bristle

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards speaks at a news conference in the Pennsylvania Capitol in opposition to legislation under consideration in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that opponents say would give Pennsylvania the nation's most restrictive abortion law, Monday, April 11, 2016, in Harrisburg, Pa. Behind Richards are Gov. Tom Wolf, as well as Erica Goldblatt Hyatt, center, and Kelsey Williams, who described their own late-term abortions because of severe or fatal complications. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)

Georgetown students to host Planned Parenthood critic, Cecile Richards on same night

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards said stripping her organization of federal funding would cut off access to birth control, cancer screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood: Important to ‘really humanize’ abortion

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards said stripping her organization of federal funding would cut off access to birth control, cancer screenings and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood: Give Merrick Garland ‘a fair hearing’

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times