by Susan Yanow At a conference on women’s health care needs in fall 2008, a woman whom Ill identify as Marcia said: “Massachusetts requires me to
By Loretta Ross I have spoken on many campuses in the wake of the “Genocide Awareness Project,” which displays posters at colleges to create controversy
By Merle Hoffman In the midst of my elation, shared with so many others, over the election of Barack Obama — the transcendence of the
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by Eleanor J. Bader To the anti-abortion movement, standing outside clinic doors and bellowing at patients and staff that they are murderers and whores is
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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
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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, Merle Hoffman, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and women’s healthcare, offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortion calling it “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.