Cory Lerner Richards (1948 – April 4, 2013) was an American activist for birth control and abortion rights. He worked for the

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, which he first joined in 1975 as a policy analyst. He was appointed vice president for public policy in 1988, senior vice president in 2000, and executive vice president in 2008. After graduating from

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in 1970, he worked for

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, a

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from

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, which led him toward

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. In 1994, Richards spearheaded the report ''Uneven and Unequal'', which analyzed variability in insurance funding for birth control. In 1998, he founded the ''Guttmacher Policy Review'', a quarterly journal that analyzes sexual and reproductive health and rights issues. The journal's statistical reporting and policy opinions have been cited by the

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and

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. Richards also volunteered with

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, the

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, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA), and Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS). He died in 2013 (aged 64) of pancreatic cancer at the Washington Home and Community Hospice.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Richards, Cory L. Deaths from pancreatic cancer American feminists American birth control activists American abortion-rights activists People from Omaha, Nebraska 1948 births 2013 deaths