Cory Lerner Richards (1948 – April 4, 2013) was an American activist for birth control and abortion rights.
[2] After graduating from Yale University in 1970, he worked for Peter Kyros, a Democratic U.S. Representative from Maine, which led him toward public health policy.
[2] In 1994, Richards spearheaded the report Uneven and Unequal, which analyzed variability in insurance funding for birth control.
[1] In 1998, he founded the Guttmacher Policy Review, a quarterly journal that analyzes sexual and reproductive health and rights issues.
[1] He died in 2013 (aged 64) of pancreatic cancer at the Washington Home and Community Hospice.