Cecile Richards

Quote of the Day: “I’m so sick of men telling us what to do with our bodies”

Cecile Richards: what a BAMF.

At Women in the World, Richards, the president the Planned Parenthood, spoke about the hot mess that is the Republican presidential campaign. In the clip below, she calls out the mass of dudes shouting over each other about how they’d restrict abortion rights. “I’m so sick of men telling us what to do with our bodies,” she said.

Richards also importantly points out that Trump’s recent statements (which he later walked back) that women who get abortions should be punished is really just the logical conclusion of the anti-choice agenda. Watch the clip below, and find others here.

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Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com.

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