Ann Richards' daughter says foes 'going for broke'
By ROBIN FINNNew York Times
NEW YORK - Cecile Richards, the new and instantly embattled president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, would like those retro "folks" — her word — intent on knocking her organization, and the entire abortion rights movement, off the map to know she takes after her maternal grandmother.
That would be the tall, whip-thin woman who, nine-months pregnant and bedridden, took a timeout from home-birthing a future governor of Texas — Richards' mother, Ann — to wring the neck of the chicken her family was having for dinner. Plucky.
"I love the idea of that story, and I'm sure it's true," says Richards, a 5-foot-10-inch antithesis of a shrinking violet.
Her arrival at her office in Planned Parenthood's New York City headquarters has coincided with a law in South Dakota that makes it a felony to perform an abortion unless a pregnant woman's life is in danger......
