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(10) Everything We Could - by Jessica Valenti

Abortion, Every Day

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Everything We Could

A few words on Cecile Richards

Jessica Valenti

Jan 20, 2025

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The news that Cecile Richards died this morning took my breath away. It’s not that her passing was a surprise—Cecile went public about her brain cancer diagnosis last year—but when a force that large leaves the world, it seems odd that the sun is still in the sky and the world is still turning. Don’t they know what happened?

A life-long feminist activist and consummate troublemaker, Cecile is probably best known for her work as the president of Planned Parenthood. There, she led the organization for over a decade and became a public face for the pro-choice movement. I think often about what she must have sacrificed to do that work—not just the time and energy it took to lead on an issue like abortion, but the danger she put herself in every time she spoke up.

She did that for us.

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"Tragedy is only possible to a mind which is for the moment agnostic or Manichean. The least touch of any theology which has a compensating Heaven to offer to the tragic hero is fatal." - I. A. Richards, ‘Principles of Literary Criticism’ (1924)

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