Cecile Richards

The One Regret From My Time Leading Planned Parenthood

[...] Years from now, historians will look back on the past two decades as a turning point in the fight for access to abortion. If I have one regret from my time leading Planned Parenthood, it is that we believed that providing vital health care, with public opinion on our side, would be enough to overcome the political onslaught. I underestimated the callousness of the Republican Party and its willingness to trade off the rights of women for political expediency ....

An opinion piece in The New York Times by Cecile Richards. It is worth a read.