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- Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards has a new memoir called “Make Trouble.”
- Richards brought Planned Parenthood back to its movement roots and has defended it from members of Congress throughout her tenure.
- Planned Parenthood provides a wide variety of women’s health services across the United States, but its abortion services have made it one of the most controversial organizations in the country.
- Richards told Business Insider that she’s been inspired throughout her career by her late mother, Texas Governor Ann Richards, and her upbringing in an activist family.
Cecile Richards has never shied away from controversy. Back in seventh grade, she got sent to the principal’s office for protesting the Vietnam War. More recently, as president of Planned Parenthood, she defended the organization in a heated 2015 congressional hearing.
For Richards, it’s all worth it to be able to do the work she loves.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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