A few days after the 2018 March for Life, Cecile Richards, president of the nation’s largest abortion provider and “the iconic face of Planned Parenthood for over a decade” according to the Huffington Post, announced that she would be stepping down from her post. She is planning her exit for May, the month after her memoir is scheduled to be published, and is expected to play a role in fundraising and campaigning for Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.

Planned Parenthood established a search committee to find Richards’ replacement and chose a novelist as its leader. New York Times columnist and author Anna Quindlen will lead the search committee — Planned Parenthood is calling her a “unique voice on behalf of women.”