Time Most Influential 100 People list versus my opinion: Cecile Richards

Name: Cecile Richards
Occupation: President of Planned Parenthood
Age: 51
Other: Mother of three, founded Texas Freedom Network




Time 100 most influential; article 
I agree that Cecile Richards has been an influential person this year, but I also think that she was not influential in a positive way, as the article would paint her to be.  Cecile Richards is the current president of Planned Parenthood.  She is well known to be a pro-choice activist and is a Democrat.  She inaccurately described the attempts to take title X money away from Planned Parenthood an attack on women's healthcare rights.  While Planned Parenthood has kept the money seperate from that used for abortions, their recieving the money is freeing up other money from their donors to be used for abortions and abortion-related services.  There is no basis enough for law to prosecute Planned Parenthood, but Planned Parenthood WAS making false claims saying it was "an attack on women's healthcare".  She needs to realize that her company is not the only organization in the US that provides contraception and other HELPFUL, NON-HARMFUL services to women.  They claimed that they do mammograms for women, but NO PLANNED PARENTHOOD DOES MAMMOGRAMS.  They refer people to hospitals and other places that DO provide mammograms. 


Negatively influential, not positively.  Please understand this, people.  Look at her.  She can't be happy, truely happy with herself in the end.  Her eyes are dead and void of happiness and life.  Her smile looks so forced.  The whole expression on her face does.  It is like a mask.  You have to wonder what she really thinks, what her real motives are.  It makes you wonder if something deep inside her is hinting that what she's working for is wrong and that she's just denying it.  I guess we'll never know.