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Cecile Richards Episode 7 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Freethought Matters,” titled “Cecile Richards,” promises to be an engaging and insightful discussion. This episode will air on Pix and features hosts Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, who are well-known co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (Ffrf). They have a knack for bringing in prominent voices from the freethought community, and this episode is no exception.

Cecile Richards, a leading figure in the fight for reproductive rights and social justice, will join the hosts for an in-depth interview. Known for her work with Planned Parenthood and her advocacy for women’s rights, Richards has made significant contributions to public discourse. Her perspectives on the intersection of freethought and activism will likely provide valuable insights for viewers interested in these important issues.

As always, Gaylor and Barker will guide the conversation, exploring not...

This Sunday, February 16, 2025, at 10:00 Am, “Freethought Matters” will air its highly anticipated Episode 7, titled “Cecile Richards.” Hosted by the dynamic duo of Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker, this episode promises to be both enlightening and engaging.

Cecile Richards, a prominent advocate for women’s rights and former president of Planned Parenthood, will be the featured guest. Her insights on freethought, activism, and the intersection of religion and reproductive rights are sure to spark meaningful discussions. Gaylor and Barker are known for their ability to dive deep into conversations, and this episode will be no exception.

Viewers can expect an exploration of Richards’ journey and her thoughts on the importance of secularism in public policy. The episode will highlight her experiences in activism and the challenges faced in the fight for women’s health and autonomy. This episode of “Freethought Matters” is set to inspire and inform, making it...

Cecile Richards, the former head of Planned Parenthood, has died at the age of 67 after a battle with glioblastoma. She died just hours before President Donald Trump’s second inauguration began on Monday, January 20. Richards was a fierce advocate for women’s healthcare and abortion rights in the United States, and Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court justices Trump appointed. “This morning our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” her family said in a statement. “Our hearts are broken today but no words can do justice to the joy she brought to our lives.” The statement added that the family was “grateful to the doctors and health care workers who provided her excellent care and the friends, family, and well-wishers who have been by her side during this challenging time.” Richards was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer,...

Cecile Richards, the organizer and activist who transformed Planned Parenthood into a political powerhouse, died on Monday at age 67. A year ago, Richards announced that she had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer.

Richards “passed away at home, surrounded by her family and her ever-loyal dog, Ollie,” her husband Kirk, daughters Lily and Hannah, and son Daniel, said in a joint statement. “If you’d like to celebrate Cecile today, we invite you to put on some New Orleans jazz, gather with friends and family over a good meal,...

The Democratic National Convention continued on Tuesday with another slate of speakers advocating for Vice President Kamala Harris. They weren’t all Democrats. The DNC’s second day also featured the delegation roll call, in which delegates representing American states and territories announced their selection for president. It was way more exciting than it had any right to be.

As DNC Secretary Jason Rae called on each delegation from the stage, DJ Cassidy cued up a song for each state — except in the case of Georgia, when Atlanta native Lil Jon...

On a Thursday two years ago today, at exactly 10:10 in the morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs, the landmark case overruling Roe v. Wade and ending the federal right to abortion. The decision was not necessarily a surprise — almost two months earlier, a leaked draft of the ruling was published by Politico — so much as a confirmation of abortion rights supporters’ worst fears.

The real surprise, as New York Times reporters Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer write in their new book The Fall of Roe, was the date of its release.

Additional speakers and a new keynote session have been revealed for South by Southwest 2023.

Event organizers announced Tuesday that featured speakers for the 37th edition of the annual conference spotlighting the convergence of technology and the film and music industries include Eric André, Blxst, Josh D’Amaro, Tommy Dorfman, Ashley Flowers, Gottmik, Nick Jonas, Martin Luther King III, Damon Lindelof, Eva Longoria, Alexis Ohanian, Maya Penn, Austin Russell, RZA, Dan Schulman, Simran Jeet Singh, Cheryl Strayed, Jen Wong and more.

‘Unfold The Universe: NASA’s Webb Space Telescope’ was also named as a new keynote session at SXSW. It will include members of the James Webb Space Telescope team and feature a never-before-seen image.

“We are honored to host a Keynote Session featuring members of the James Webb Space Telescope team,” said Hugh Forrest, chief programming officer and co-president. “They join an impressive group of Featured Speakers who have consistently strived...

South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals has confirmed its initial Featured Speakers for the 37th edition of its annual Conference. SXSW 2023 will take place March 10 – 19, 2023 in Austin, Texas.

“At SXSW, our goal is to always host a range of speakers who represent the full spectrum of the creative industries that converge in Austin every March,” Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer, said in a statement. “Our initial group of Featured Speakers, which includes futurists like Amy Webb, lifelong activists and advocates such as Alexandra Reeve Givens and Cecile Richards, and athletic titan turned business leader Allyson Felix, marks a significant first step towards a phenomenal SXSW 2023.”

The SXSW Conference is organized into 25 programming tracks presented in a variety of session formats. The tracks for 2023 include 2050, Advertising & Brand Experience, Cannabis, Civic Engagement, Climate Change, Creating Film & Episodics, Culture, Design, Energy, Film & TV Industry, Food, Game Industry, Health & MedTech, Markets & Economies, Media Industry,...

As the former president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards helped transform the federation of women’s healthcare clinics into a political juggernaut, all while deflecting both Republican efforts to strip the organization of federal funding and vicious attacks on her character by religious fanatics. When Richards left the organization after 12 years in 2018, Planned Parenthood had more than quadrupled its ranks of volunteers and supporters. She presiding over some of the movement’s biggest victories and its most devastating losses — including the passage, at the state level, of hundreds of anti-abortion laws,...

Ivanka Trump’s name was brought into debates about abortion rights this past weekend when a prominent Manhattan socialite accused her of receiving an abortion in high school. She has referred to herself as “unapologetically” pro-life in a 2020 interview with RealClearPolitics. Former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards once said that Trump and her husband Jared […]

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Cecile Richards, a longtime activist for women’s rights and a former president of Planned Parenthood, has a message for shellshocked women of privilege in Hollywood: Speak out.

As the harsh reality of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade sinks in, Richards is calling on entertainment industry leaders to share deeply personal stories of how family planning efforts have effected their lives. Richards, who led Planned Parenthood for a dozen years starting in 2006, asserted that industry insiders have an obligation to use their megaphones to draw attention to the urgency of the situation.

“This is a national health crisis,” Richards told Variety. “Like you see people come together for tsunami relief, people need to come together and say ‘This is a crisis and we’re going to fight it.'”

There are other urgent needs in what will be a long battle to restore a woman’s right to chose,...

Julia Review — Julia (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West and starring Julia Child, Jose Andres, Andre Cointreau, Susy Davidson, Ina Garten, Charles Gibson, Ruth Reichl, Cecile Richards, Marcus Samuelsson, Jane Friedman and Francois Simon. Julia is a remarkable documentary about the life of Julia Child. A woman of [...]

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Willie Nelson will perform at a virtual fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The show takes place Monday June 29th, at 5 p.m. Et/4 p.m. Ct.

The event is aimed at boosting Biden’s campaign in Texas, which is increasingly looking like it could be a swing state in November. A Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won Texas since Jimmy Carter in 1976, but recent polls show Biden neck-and-neck there with President Donald Trump.

Texas Fundraiser for @joebiden This Monday with @WillieNelson, @robertearlkeen @CecileRichards @BetoORourke @JulianCastro! Get your tickets here: https://t.

Washington — Former Vice President Joe Biden is close to all but securing the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination after comfortable victories on Tuesday in Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, and several other states. A question now looms over his candidacy: Who will Biden choose as his running mate?

Biden himself has dropped more than a few hints about who he’d want on the ticket with him since he entered the presidential race in early 2019. There’s Stacey Abrams of Georgia — a star in the Democratic party who was mentioned as a possible running...

After the 2017 Women’s March, women kept stopping Cecile Richards on the street, on the subway, at events. They all had the same question: “‘What am I supposed to do now? I’ve marched, I’ve called my member of Congress, but I know there’s more I can do,’ ” says Richards, who helped build Planned Parenthood into a political juggernaut during her 12-year tenure as president.

She wasn’t alone. Ai-Jen Poo, co-founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance in Chicago, and Alicia Garza, who helped build the Black Lives Matter movement from Oakland,...

Exclusive: Pen America is set to honor Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, the writing duo behind the forthcoming award season film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and the creative team behind the Netflix series Unbelievable at its 2019 LitFest Gala, which will take place on November 1 at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles.

Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster will receive the Award for Screenplay Excellence for the Mr. Rogers biopic while the Award for Television Excellence will go to the Unbelievable team which includes Showrunner/Writer/Director/Executive Producer Susannah Grant, Writer/Executive Producer Michael Chabon, Writer/Executive Producer Ayelet Waldman, and Executive Producer Sarah Timberman (on behalf of Timberman and her producing partner Carl Beverly).

In addition, actor and Reading Rainbow icon LeVar Burton will deliver a tribute to the legendary Toni Morrison a long-time Pen America winner and Nobel Prize winner. She will be recognized for her unparalleled contributions to literature,...

Exclusive: Emmy, Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated director, producer and activist Ava DuVernay will be honored by Pen America with the Voice of Influence Award. The organization “unites writers and allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible” — something that is definitely in DuVernay’s wheelhouse.

DuVernay will be honored with the award at Pen America’s 2019 LitFest Gala on November 1 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. She will be in good company with fellow LitFest Gala honoree Diane Warren who will be honored with the Artistic Expression Award

“We are honored to recognize the unparalleled work that Ava DuVernay has done throughout her career, which constantly reminds us of the true purpose and power of storytelling,” said Michelle Franke, executive director of Pen America’s Los Angeles office. “We admire the rigor with which her work has explored the lesser-heard, all-too-often suppressed voices of history. Pen...

Pen America announced today that internationally acclaimed songwriter Diane Warren will receive the Artistic Expression Award at the organization’s 2019 LitFest Gala in Los Angeles.

Among the most successful contemporary songwriters of our time, Warren has collaborated with legendary artists including Whitney Houston, Cher, Aerosmith, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Adele. Her powerful, message-driven songs like “Stand Up For Something” and “I’ll Fight” have inspired millions to speak out about their beliefs and have earned her worldwide recognition, including 10 Academy Award® nominations, a Grammy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, among many other honors.. The 2019 LitFest Gala will take place on November 1, 2019 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

“I am always moved when I hear my songs being used to empower and motivate, including such recent songs as ‘Til It Happens to You,’ ‘Stand Up For Something,’ ’I’ll Fight,’ and ’I’m Standing with You,...

The day before Dr. Leana Wen took the reins as president of Planned Parenthood — the first doctor to lead the organization in 50 years — staffers received a detailed memo indicating how things were going to operate under the new leadership. Addressed to the organization’s communications team, it included the eyebrow-raising directive “No action or requests should be taken until approval from the [Office of the President] is given.”

Planned Parenthood is a massive health care provider, serving more than 2.4 million patients at some 600 health clinics across the country, and a political powerhouse that had...

Women in the World and IFC Center unveiled their lineup for the very first 51Fest, an event that celebrates the voice, vision and stories of the female majority through compelling screenings and conversations, all by or about women. The inaugural festival takes place July 18-21 in New York City.

51Fest will open the festivities with the docu-comedy Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story, which spotlights the fallout from the comedian’s infamous photo holding a mask of Donald Trump’s likeness and her battle to reclaim her life and career. After the screening, Griffin will sit down in conversation with Tina Brown, CEO and founder of Tina Brown Live Media/Women in the World.

“The inaugural 51Fest leaves no doubt that a woman’s place is at the center of the story,” said Brown. “Griffin’s film is a cautionary tale of what happens when a thin-skinned authoritarian,...

On a recent Wednesday, Utah and Arkansas were both sending legislation to their (male) governors that would restrict abortion at 18 weeks, and I was waiting in the hallway of a Manhattan office building, woozy from lack of sleep, and trying not to feel like a liability to the feminist cause. It wasn’t the future of reproductive rights in America that was keeping me up this time; it was my 16-month-old, her emerging molar and her plaintive, little cries throughout the night, much of which I’d spent rocking her...

Priyanka Chopra has just been added to the star-studded list of speakers at the 2019 Women in the World Summit.

Chopra, who will be interviewed on stage by Women in the World founder Tina Brown, will discuss her career as an activist and entrepreneur. Recently, the “Baywatch” actress joined forces with Serena Williams in investing in the Bumble dating app and was instrumental in bringing the service to India. In addition, “If I Could Tell You Just One Thing,” Chopra’s new YouTube series featuring interviews with women including Diane Von Furstenberg, Awkwafina, and Simone Biles, will premiere on March 27.

The lineup for the event, which will be celebrating its 10th anniversary at Lincoln Center from April 10-12, also includes Brie Larson, Cindy McCain, Susan Rice, Stacey Abrams, Ashley Judd, Jill Soloway, Bryan Cranston, and Anna Wintour with a keynote address from Oprah Winfrey.

Themes for the summit center on battling misinformation,...

Often hilarious and always a delight, Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins is the conversational, down-home story of the Smith College-educated Texan who found herself bouncing around the country to find her voice. When she landed at the New York Times in the late 70s after a stint at the Texas Observer her colorful language became too much for the conservative editors of The Gray Lady. She found herself running the paper’s one-woman Rocky Mountain bureau, concluding that best job at the Times is one away from New York City.

A Texan at heart, she found herself in Dallas where she was given a broad mandate at the Dallas Times Herald, penning several books and later becoming an unintentional expert of the Bush family dynasty. Standing over six-feet tall with a wide frame, Ivins proclaims herself, despite her left-leaning politics, as a proud gun-loving, beer-drinking Texan...

Columnist, humorist and author Molly Ivins died in 2007, but the new documentary “Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins” reminds us that her particular brand of perspicacity is as vital and as necessary now as it was when she covered the 1968 Democratic Convention or watched George W. Bush rocket from the Texas governor’s mansion to the White House.

Her trenchant observations about corrupt, lazy or flat-out stupid politicians was must reading then, and timeless in our current era. When one of the film’s many interview clips has her noting that the political spectrum in this country doesn’t run left to right, but rather top to bottom, it’s as relevant as anything in tomorrow’s newspaper.

Newspapers, incidentally, play a significant role in Ivins’ life story, as it’s told by director Janice Engel, making her theatrical feature debut. We follow the writer from gawky...

Alec Baldwin has been arrested following a dispute over a parking spot near his New York City home.

Baldwin allegedly punched a man during the dispute on Friday and was arrested for misdemeanor assault, a New York Police Department official confirms to our sister site Variety. The incident took place in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, on East 10th Street near University Place.

The actor took to Twitter on Friday afternoon to deny the charges, calling the allegation that he punched someone over a parking spot “false”:

1- Normally, I would not comment on something as egregiously misstated as today’s story.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) extinguished any lingering hopes that she might cast the deciding vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon. As she delivered her lengthy speech on the Senate floor, a crowd-funding site created to fund a Democratic challenge to Collins in 2020 crashed.

“This entire process was up to Collins,” says Amy Halsted, co-director of Maine People’s Alliance, which launched the campaign. “And today she did the wrong thing.”

The Crowdpac campaign, which the progressive grassroots organization started with the express purpose...

Pen America announced today that globally lauded artist Ai Weiwei will receive the Artistic Expression Award at the organization’s 2018 LitFest Gala in Los Angeles.

Ai is renowned for making bold aesthetic statements that expose fault lines, unmask hypocrisies, and unleash empathy on a global scale. This honor comes in the wake of the razing last weekend of Ai Weiwei’s Beijing studio, including the destruction of several artworks, purportedly to make way for gentrification. In the fall of 2018, Ai Weiwei will open three major exhibitions in Los Angeles. The 2018 LitFest Gala, which will take place on November 2, 2018, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, will also recognize media and entertainment litigator and Pen America Trustee Marvin Putnam with the 2018 Distinguished Leadership Award for exceptional work in support of Pen America and its mission to defend free expression and celebrate literary excellence.

Now in its 28th year, Pen America’s LitFest Gala...

You look “Marvelous”! That’s what “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is saying to women-led companies and organizations in New York and Los Angeles as part of its latest Emmy campaign. Amazon has created 11 installations, each with an eight-foot display of block letters spelling out “Marvelous” in front of businesses and locations representative of female empowerment. Those installations went up on June 12 and will remain up for a week. That coincides with Emmy voting, which started on June 11 and ends on June 25.

“The character Midge Maisel is a strong, talented woman who strikes out on her own to forge a new path, and in the spirit of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ we are excited to shine a light on other fantastic, entrepreneurial women,” said Amazon’s head of marketing Mike Benson in a statement. “We hope that this campaign will inspire others to find their unique voice.”

The women being spotlighted...

She's the hero we don't deserve. Stormy Daniels is reportedly going to donate the $130,000 she received in hush money to planned parenthood in Donald Trump and his attorney Michael Cohen's names — if (fingers crossed) she wins her case against the Potus. In her upcoming interview with Penthouse magazine, Stormy (real name: Stephanie Cliffords) reportedly makes the pledge, along with sharing some new Nsfw details she left out of her explosive interview with In Touch. "I don't have shame. You can't bully me," Stormy said, according to The Daily Beast, who got a sneak peek at the cover, which hits newsstands on May 8. The magazine goes on to call Stormy the "Penthouse Pet of the Century" and will feature a new nude shoot of the 39-year-old beauty. "We are really excited to have Stormy back on the cover of the magazine,” said Penthouse CEO Kelly Holland. “She was a Penthouse Pet...

Shonda Rhimes launched her new website Shondaland.com on Monday, adding a new Hearst digital media platform to her long list of responsibilities. The website Shondaland.com will cover politics, culture, style, health and relationships through interviews, essays and video content. Among the first pieces on the site are an advice column called “Agony Auntie,” a list of book recommendations, a personal essay from “Scandal” star Katie Lowes about buying a home, an interview with Rep. Maxine Waters conducted by Rhimes and a Trumpcare explainer written by Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards. “This is not a lifestyle site,” Rhimes wrote in her inaugural.

Today, Planned Parenthood powerhouse Cecile Richards is a seasoned mother of three. But before her kids were grown up, they had a lot of learning to do not only about life in general, but the cause their mom so vehemently supported.

And for her now-26-year-old son, some hilarious lessons started pretty early. “Daniel — who must’ve been maybe 5 or 6 at the time — he comes out of the house and he’s unrolled a condom,” Richards, 60, recalls in a segment for People’s Celeb Parents Get Real. “He said, ‘Hey Mom, what’s this?’ ”

“It was mortifying for his sisters,...

When Ivanka Trump asked Cecile Richards for a private meeting earlier this year, the Planned Parenthood president held out hope for working together with President Trump’s eldest daughter on women’s health issues.

“She asked to meet, and I said I was happy to meet to talk about what Planned Parenthood does,” Richards tells People in an interview for this week’s issue. “I explained to her about all of our services, about the millions of people – one in five women in this country – who’ve been to Planned Parenthood for health care.”

The two women met over coffee early last winter,...

When Ivanka Trump asked Cecile Richards for a private meeting earlier this year, the Planned Parenthood president’s hopes won out over her deep differences

with the White House this First Daughter represented.

“Like her father, she knew Planned Parenthood did a lot of good. I felt she was incredibly sympathetic,” Richards recalls of that early-winter sit-down over coffee. “I hoped she would use her influence and her role to speak up for women in this country. But it’s not about talk. It’s about action.”

You might call that a life mantra for Richards, a marathon-running, passionately committed...

This year, there are over 20,000 people who get to select the nominees and winners of the Emmys, and hundreds of shows are vying for their attention. In 2016, we were struck by some of the creativity that studios and networks used in pushing out the word about various shows.

Things seemed more subdued on a street level in 2017, though Emmy campaign expert Rich Licata told IndieWire that the networks did seem plenty active when it came to advertising buys.

Read More: Emmy Predictions 2017

“A lot of it unfortunately has turned into white noise,” Licata said, “because there were so many programs and so many networks that I don’t know how a responsible voter can really focus and say, ‘Ok, I’m going to watch all this.'”

Up against nearly impossible odds, there were some shows that were able to stand out, thanks to either completely rejecting the system, redefining...

The Cfda’s prestigious Fashion Icon Award winners have always been boundary-pushing stylesetters that aren’t afraid to express themselves boldly and creatively through their outfits. Case in point? The last three recipients were Rihanna, Pharrell and Beyoncé. And at last night’s “Fashion Oscars,” singer-actress Janelle Monáe joined the elite group taking home the top title.

All throughout awards season she consistently landed on our Best Dressed lists thanks to the unexpected ways she incorporated whimsical prints and experimented with interesting silhouettes on the carpet (not to mention, somehow found enough black and white outfits to supply her signature...

The 2017 Cfda Awards brought out the biggest names in fashion. Held Monday at the Hammerstein Ballroom in N.Y.C., activists (Janet Mock, Cecile Richards, Gloria Steinem), actresses (Nicole Kidman, Olivia Munn, Kerry Washington), designers (Tory Burch, Christian Siriano, Diane Von Furstenberg), editors (Nina García, Zanna Roberts Rassi, Anna Wintour), models (Adriana Lima, Gigi Hadid, Heidi Klum), musicians (Haim, Janelle Monáe, Mia Moretti) and more came together to honor the best and brightest in the industry. Seth Meyers hosted the annual event for the second time. After a mere one season at the helm of Calvin Klein, Raf Simons took home the awards for Menswear Designer of the Year and Womenswear...

It's time to honor the very best in the fashion world.  The 2017 Cfda Fashion Awards, in partnership with Swarovski for the sixteenth year, is finally here and Hollywood's biggest stars are stepping out in glamorous red carpet looks.  Held at The Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, the star-studded event will feature Seth Meyers as host with Kenneth Cole, Janelle Monáe, Cecile Richards and Gloria Steinem receiving just some of the special awards. Before the show begins, we have to talk about the A-list stars arriving in their Monday best. In our gallery below, we're spotlighting more than a few familiar faces and their head-to-toe looks....

Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman have been very vocal about their dislike for U.S. President Donald Trump, and it seems the same is true for his daughter, Ivanka Trump. Silverman and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards sat down with Handler on her talk show “Chelsea” and chatted about their mutual disagreement with Ivanka’s unwillingness to […]...

Ivanka Trump follows Sarah Silverman on Twitter. Silverman revealed this nugget while talking, in-studio, with Chelsea Handler and Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards about the new administration and Planned Parenthood for Friday's episode of Netflix’s Chelsea. Handler and Richards noted Planned Parenthood is not just the “abortion” place, which Richards says keeps “getting repeated by politicians who know better." “This whole de-funding of Planned Parenthood…...

Fashion influencers showed their (stylish) support for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday evening, when the former Democratic presidential nominee was honored in New York City with a “Champion of the Century Award” by Planned Parenthood as it celebrated 100 years of operation.

America Ferrera was fully #WithHer in a custom pink Kate Spade pantsuit that was accessorized with a custom #PP100 Edie Parker clutch. The Ugly Betty alum and Superstore actress has been vocal about her endorsement for Clinton. Along with speaking at the

Along with speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Ferrera, 33, also took on a leadership role in January’s...

Shonda Rhimes has added another job to her many titles — national board member of Planned Parenthood. The woman behind “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder” has signed on to represent Planned Parenthood on a nationwide level, Elle reported Thursday. While Rhimes has long worked with her local Planned Parenthood affiliate in Los Angeles, she told Elle that Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards approached her about expanding her participation. Also Read: Nick Cannon Blasts Planned Parenthood for 'Eugenics,' 'Real Genocide' “When someone you really admire … calls on you to serve, you say yes,” Rhimes said.

Has your newsfeed has been flooded with pink today?

Supporters of Planned Parenthood have been sharing selfies, photos and other social media posts splashed with the color pink to voice opposition to political plans to defund the organization.

The Pink Out Day social media campaign has been getting a lot of support from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars: using the hashtag #PinkOut, celebrities — including Charlize Theron, Lily Collins, Elizabeth Banks and Connie Britton — have been sharing their support for Planned Parenthood.

We'll never stop fighting for our health, rights & communities. #IStandWithPP & 2.5Mm who rely on it. #PinkOut https://t.

Samantha Bee is going full frontal with Hillary Clinton. The “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” host has been tapped to introduce Clinton at Tina Brown’s annual Women in the Word summit, which is set to take place April 5 – 7 at Lincoln Center in New York City. Clinton will be on hand for a conversation with New York Times columnist and author Nicholas Kristof. Also Read: Samantha Bee Edits Trump Tweet to Call President a 'Giant Baby' Other participants at this year’s summit include Tracee Ellis Ross, Lena Dunham, Cecile Richards, Scarlett Johansson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Masha Gessen, Dr. Annie Sparrow,...

Ali Larter is taking a stand in support of Planned Parenthood and hopes others will follow suit.

The actress and author made an appearance at the 2017 Philadelphia Action Forum on Wednesday, along with Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (pictured above). More than 400 advocates gathered at the event for community strategy meetings aimed at organizing and fighting back against policies they feel are harmful to their cause.

Larter grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ, just across the river from Philadelphia. “I was just so excited when they asked me to come to the Planned Parenthood Action Forum,...

The first full day of Donald Trump‘s presidency began in protest, as hundreds of thousands of people across the globe took to the streets on Saturday to stand in solidarity with women’s rights and against the election of the 70-year-old businessman.

But before they marched, protestors made signs to help spread their message. And their sign game was strong.

Social media was flooded on Saturday with photos of these signs — some humorous, others heartbreaking in the seriousness of their reality.

Most were seen at the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. — where as many as 500,000 people are expected.

What began as a simple Facebook invitation to protest the election of president Donald Trump turned into a global movement on Saturday, as millions of women (and men) across the world took to the streets in solidarity.

Their signature event was the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. — though a series of sister marches planned in all 50 states and six continents across the world were also scheduled. And among the political protesters lending their voices to the cause were a slew of famous faces.

Katy Perry was one of them. The vocal Hillary Clinton supporter shared a throwback photo of herself and her sister,...

This weekend, you can see a good movie for an even better cause.

Thanks to the studio behind 20th Century Women, A24, a portion of ticket sales from the movie’s opening weekend will benefit Planned Parenthood, an organization that played a surprisingly big role in the film’s development.

The film, loosely based on childhood of its director, Mike Mills, tells the story of a boy growing up in the 1970s whose mother, played by Annette Bening, seeks the help of two other women, played by Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning, to raise her son.

In the special featurette above,...

This morning, “Girls” creator and star Lena Dunham premiered a new video entitled “100 Years,” an animated short film that honors Planned Parenthood and chronicles the history of women’s health care since the early 20th century. Co-directed by Dunham and Kirsten Lepore, as well as written by Alex Ronan, the film examines the history of Planned Parenthood, from Margaret Sanger’s birth control activism to abortion-related legislation like “Roe v. Wade” and the Hyde Amendment. It features narrators like Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, America Ferrera, Mindy Kaling, Hari Nef, Andrew Rannells, Cecile Richards, Gina Rodriguez, Amy Schumer, Tessa Thompson, Constance Wu, Sasheer Zamata and Dunham herself. Watch it below.

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“We’ve been working on the film for over a year in an attempt to shed light on Planned Parenthood’s remarkable history and ongoing...

When President-elect Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” during the final presidential debate in October, the phrase went viral and became a rallying cry for Clinton supporters.

T-shirt pressing company Google Ghost picked up on the movement, and created “Nasty Woman” shirts that feature the phrase written over a red heart, and released them before the debate had even finished airing. By the end of the night, the small company had sold 50 shirts.

“When I woke up, I checked sales hoping for a few more… and there were thousands. Turns out the shirt went viral,” founders Amanda and...

President Barack Obama is taking steps to protect family planning services like Planned Parenthood once he leaves office in January.

Obama, along with the Department of Health and Human Services, finalized a rule Wednesday that stops states from denying federal funds to clinics such as Planned Parenthood because they also provide abortions.

The measure will go into effect on Jan. 18, two days before President-Elect Donald Trump‘s inauguration. While Trump’s new administration will be able to overturn the regulation, they will need to propose and create a new rule to replace it — a process that took three months for...