In the wake of filling in as leader of Planned Parenthood for over ten years, Cecile Richards reported in January 2018 that she'd step far from the part, leaving an opportunity in charge of the non-benefit association. 

Starting today, Sept. 12, Planned Parenthood's administration has been filled. Cecile Richards is withdrawn by Dr. Leana Wen, a crisis doctor and wellbeing chief to the city of Baltimore, denoting the primary case in decades where a restorative expert ingests the duty of president. 

"For over 100 years, no association has helped out ladies' wellbeing than Planned Parenthood, and I'm really respected to be named its leader," Wen said in an announcement discharged by Planned Parenthood. 

As per Planned Parenthood, Wen graduated summa cum laude from California State University at 18 years old before going to therapeutic school—where she volunteered at a Planned Parenthood in St. Louis—and turning into a Rhodes Scholar. Wen has a long history of working for ladies' social insurance rights, and attributes Planned Parenthood to her family's effective change from China to the U.S. 

"I'm a worker. When I was eight, my folks brought me here from China," Wen clarifies in a video discharged by the non-benefit. "We went to the U.S. with $40 to our name. We relied upon Medicaid and sustenance stamps, and furthermore on Planned Parenthood for human services." 

In the video, Wen proceeds to depict a patient's fizzled home premature birth, a lethal circumstance that enlivened Wen to get required with the political side of human services. The disaster balanced her for her change from a crisis doctor to turning into the wellbeing chief for the city of Baltimore. 

"I saw a young lady lying a stretcher pulseless and inert in light of a home fetus removal," Wen portrays. "Since she was excessively frightened, making it impossible to look for medicinal care. I did everything that I could to revive her. In any case, she kicked the bucket. She kicked the bucket in view of a disappointment in our framework." 

As a major aspect of her administration as wellbeing official, Wen sued the Trump Administration (and won her case) when it cut Baltimore's financing for high schooler pregnancy counteractive action programs, and battled against the stifler decide that enabled specialists to withhold data about premature births as a possibility for young moms. 

"We need to battle. Everything is in question. There is not any more critical time than now, and not any more essential association than Planned Parenthood," Wen deduces in the video. Watch the full clasp reporting her administration underneath.