Former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards died at the age of 67 on Monday after a battle with cancer.
“This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” Richards’s family wrote in a statement. “Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives.”
Vice President Kamala Harris shared her condolences for Richards Monday, emphasizing her “legacy that will continue to inspire generations to come.”
“I have known Cecile for decades and have stood shoulder to shoulder with her in many battles,” Harris said in a statement. “What I know to be true is that in this moment, she would want us to honor her by rededicating ourselves to the fight for fundamental freedoms. Let us roll up our sleeves and make her proud.”
President Biden, who awarded Richards with the Medal of Freedom in November, described the abortion rights activist as a fearless champion for civil rights causes.
“Cecile fearlessly led us forward to be the America we say we are. Carrying her mom’s torch for justice, she championed some of our Nation’s most important civil rights causes,” he wrote in a statement.
Prior to her role at Planned Parenthood, Richards served as deputy chief of staff for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and founded America Votes, a group aiming to increase voter registration and participation.
Pelosi described Richards as a “commanding leader” and “formidable champion of women, girls and working families.”
“As my deputy chief of staff when I was Democratic Whip and Leader, she was a critical part of ensuring that Team Pelosi stayed connected to the needs and priorities of grassroots,” Pelosi wrote in a statement “As she ascended to other leadership roles, we never stopped working together to defend the rights of women and working families.”
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Burn in HELL! Sixty-three million dead, and counting.
She deserves her eternal damnation in hell. Wicked evil trash. Jesus hates her and she’ll burn in his presence for all eternity!
Quite disappointing that this was not an appropriately neutral journalistic story. It reads as if it were simply provided by and for the “progressive” agenda of Planned Parenthood.
God have mercy on her soul. She presided over millions of unborn babies’ slaughter.
Are you kidding? She burning burning burning in Hell. She is evil satanic trash and she deserves her damnation in hell burning in the presence of the holy angels and the Lord Jesus Christ! Same place Biden is going and he more than deserves it.
Show me the body, And i’ll need to stick it w/a pin! BTW is any of her body parts for sale!
She’s finally suffering the vengeance of everlasting FIRE!!! The aborted babies in heaven are all rejoicing now that this murdering freak is dead and in Hell.
Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.