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By Avory Faucette May 21, 2012 As the Summer 2012 Olympics in London gear up, the media will be presenting …
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by Louise Melling April 15, 2012 For nearly two years, legislatures across the country have proposed and passed an unprecedented …
by Mary Lou Greenberg April 10, 2012 When two Barnard college students arrived to escort patients into a New York …
By Charlotte Taft April 3, 2012 As I write this, I’m not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a …
By Ann Rose March 28, 2012 Since 1976 when the Hyde Amendment passed, I’ve been hopelessly annoyed with the pro-choice …
By Janna Frieman March 22, 2012 In January, a woman prematurely gave birth to twins in her cell within 24 …
by Carol Clouse In the surge of Sandy, I sat alone in my home in southeast Pennsylvania, and listened to …
By David Burress March 14, 2012 The right-wing anti-abortion movement’s every argument against abortion has a coherent pro-violent subtext. There …
By Sarah Morison March 8, 2012 In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unprecedented visit to the …
by Mary W. Quigley On Monday evening, October 29, as super storm Sandy made landfall on Long Island, Laurie Nadel …
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By Erika M. Staub RN, PHN and Jacqui R. Quetal RN, FNP February 28, 2012 Nurses are trusted professionals, and …
by Frances Karlen Santamaria I’m not sure how or when I first heard that my mother had an abortion before …
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by The Editors Only a few more days to register for a course on “Writing on the Body.” Registration closes …
by The Editors Merle Hoffman, President and CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Center and the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of On the …
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by Jennifer Baumgardner In 2004, frustrated by the gridlock around abortion, I embarked on an awareness campaign to put a …
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By Gabrielle Korn January 20, 2012 It’s no secret that the United States is in the midst of a War …
By Sunsara Taylor January 18, 2012 The first time I stood up for abortion rights was back in 1994 in …
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“Merle Hoffman has always known that in a democracy, we each have decision-making power over the fate of our own bodies. She is a national hero for us all.” —Gloria Steinem
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women’s healthcare offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion—“the front line and the bottom line of women’s freedom and liberty.”
Merle Hoffman has been at the forefront of the reproductive freedom movement since the 1970s. Three years before the Supreme Court legalized abortion through Roe v. Wade, she helped to establish one of the United States’ first abortion centers in Flushing, Queens, and later went on to found Choices, one of the nation’s largest and most comprehensive women’s medical facilities. For the last five decades, Hoffman has been a steadfast warrior and fierce advocate for every woman’s right to choose when and whether or not to be a mother.