The world said goodbye to several influential figures in January.

Cecile Richards, a national leader for women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died.

Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the United States.

Opponents of Texas' strict abortion ban are focusing on companies that donated money to the bill’s sponsors.

Opponents of Texas' strict abortion ban are focusing on companies that donated money to the bill’s sponsors.

Texas’ strict new law sends patients scrambling for alternative ways to access abortion, including out-of-state clinics and “self-managed” procedures.

Greg Abbott used the pandemic as a guise to limit access to abortion. Greg Abbott of using the coronavirus pandemic as a guise to end abortion access in Texas. During the month-long period when Texas was shut down, top state officials and the courts effectively banned nearly all abortions. Circuit Court of Appeals largely sided with state officials throughout the legal back and forth. In the initial weeks of the pandemic, a number of states including Texas tried to ban abortions as part of emergency orders.

A record number of women, including Harris, sought this years Democratic presidential nomination. Bill Clinton, was the nominee, but Clinton didn't speak at that year's convention. Clinton has noted that while women won the right to vote in 1920, that right wasnt extended to Black women and other women of color until decades later, Finney said. To then have a Black woman on the ticket as vice president, it demonstrates how far we've come. Finney expects Clinton to speak Wednesday about the significance of the moment for women and the conversations happening around racial injustice.