by Angell Delaney Playing like a girl is no longer an insult. It’s a HOOP DREAM millions aspire to.Thousands of females, from skinned-kneed kindergartners to
The underlying assumption of this new book by literary critic Vivian Gornick is that love — despite all we’ve been led to believe — is
by Leora Tanenbaum BOMBARDED BY PROPAGANDA ON PREMARIN, WE CAN’T TRUST OUR DOCTOR’S AND WE CAN’T TRUST OURSELVES Barbara Dworkin, 61, is one of eight
by Eileen McDonagh CONSENT TO SEX IS NOT CONSENT TO PREGNANCY Nearly 25-years after feminists celebrated Roe v. Wade, many women still undergo pregnancy against
By Phyllis Chesler Our Most Vulnerable Female Patients Are Being Raped By The Very People Who Are Supposed To Care For Them. After a devastating
by Merle Hoffman For the first time, women were in control of patient referrals and clinics, while physicians were brought down from their godlike pedestals
by Lynn Wenzel A few years ago, the New York Times reported that 100 million women are “missing” worldwide: victims of infanticide, starvation, murder, lack
Book Review by Eleanor J. Bader So who’s afraid of feminism? By the looks of it, just about everyone, including those of us who call
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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.