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By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 9 years ago

Quote of the Day: No mother wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did

Yesterday, Glamour named Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, a Woman of the Year. And damn — that woman has seriously had a year. 

Speaking about the attacks on Planned Parenthood, TRAP laws passed in conservative states to shut down clinics, and the pressures of her job, Richards said:

There’s not a mother in the world who wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did—and for me, it’s the 2.7 million people Planned Parenthood serves each year who make everything I advocate for possible. Women, men, and young people deserve quality health care and fundamental rights. I will do this job every day to protect them.

We’re all so grateful that she does. cecile

Washington, DC

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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