by Beverly Lowy “Childhood is a time when ayoung person learns to love and trust. You weretaught a brutal lesson at anearly, early age, that
by Betsy Swart A Civil Disobedience Action at Emory University, to protest animal experimentation. While funding is unavailable for treatment centers, it is there to
by Margaret Randall I lean over the developing tray, agitating a print with bamboo tongs. Slowly, two figures darken on the paper. A woman, her
by Merle Hoffman It is the two outlaw women giving the ultimate “fuck you” to the patriarchy I never really wear the things: Political buttons,
by Jill Benderly In July, I received this letter from my best friend from Yugoslavia, a lesbian feminist activist from Belgrade (the capital city of
by Elayne Clift The National Institutes of Health (NIH), America’s premier institution for health research, is having its own pulse taken these days. Under pressure
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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.