Fay Stender and the Politics of Murder
by Diana Russell Mass killings were considered gender-neutral before Lepine’s frenzied shooting of “fucking feminists” This is one person’s account of an event that happened
by Diana Russell Mass killings were considered gender-neutral before Lepine’s frenzied shooting of “fucking feminists” This is one person’s account of an event that happened
by Fred Pelka Five months after Mark Stanton Curtis was arrested in Des Moines on charges of sexual abuse and burglary, Detroit Mayor Coleman A.
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The first time I heard it was in Detroit in 1982. The words shot out at me like bullets, creating an immediate mental image that
by Susan Cahn How could there be anti-Semitism when there were so few Jews? There are not many Jews left in Poland. Maybe 10,000. There
by E.M. Broner I dog-sit on occasion. My grand-dog Tosh (rhymes with Posh) heads towards Madison Park. In front of our loft building I have
by Irene Davall The Dayton Foundation — the giving arm of Dayton Hudson Corporation — announced last summer that its annual grant to Planned Parenthood
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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.