Katie Couric Instagram – @cecilerichards is a force, and one of my personal heroes. This week in @thecut, she revealed that at the age of 66, she’s been diagnosed with brain cancer. Cecile has been on the side of women’s and reproductive rights for decades. Through her early organizing fighting for better wages and working conditions in the labor movement; helping her hilarious mother, Ann Richards, get elected as Texas’s first Democratic woman governor; serving as President of @plannedparenthood for more than a decade, where she worked to increase affordable access to reproductive health care and strengthen the movement for sexual and reproductive rights; to starting @supermajority, a nationwide initiative working to build an intergenerational, multiracial movement to advocate for gender equity. Her mom used to say, “You just have to look forward and keep going,” and Cecile is doing just that. Fighting for reproductive rights and women’s healthcare at a time when abortion access has been wiped out in nearly half the country and the Supreme Court is poised to rule in a case that could restrict the use of the abortion pill nationwide. Let’s show Cecile some love and support—after all she’s done so much for us. When I reached out after the news she delivered this message to all of us: “Continue to stand up for women. We have a lot more to do.” Cecile is still working away to help women who need access to abortion care. We love you Cecile and are sending you healing energy and light. 💪🏼❤️ Let’s make a contribution to Planned Parenthood in Cecile’s honor and tell her what an awesome badass she is in the comments below!!