Planned Parenthood sets Dallas Awards
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas will honor Cecile Richards with the Gertrude Shelburne Humanitarian Award at its 34th annual Dallas Awards event on Wednesday, Nov.
20, beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House. Co-chairs for the event are Jessica Bass Bolander, Abbie Miller Evans and Missy Rogers Peck.
Richards, daughter of beloved Texas Gov. Ann Richards, has been a national leader in the fight for women’s rights and social and economic justice, and she is a co-founder of Supermajority, an organization fighting for gender equity.Cecile Richards is the author of New York Times bestseller Make Trouble.
And as president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund for 12 years, she worked tirelessly to increase affordable access to reproductive health care and to build a healthier and safer world for women and young people.
