by Eleanor J. Bader Ramona, 32, mother of a four-year-old daughter, is dropped off at the Summit Women’s Center in Bridgeport Connecticut at 8 a.m.
by Eleanor J. Bader Prior to the 1960s, women and girls heard a steady banter when it came to sports: Don’t participate. Of course, not
by Eleanor J. Bader Deborah Burger, one of three presidents of National Nurses United, the largest union of registered nurses in the U.S., minces no
by Eleanor J. Bader When retired clinic owner Patricia Baird-Windle contacted me in 1998 and invited me to collaborate with her on a book about
by Eleanor J. Bader Growing up, 39-year-old activist artist Heather Ault never imagined that people had been trying to control their fertility for more than
by Eleanor J. Bader The setting changes but the scene does not: Men and women in crisply pressed uniforms enter public high schools across the
by Eleanor J. Bader Three years ago, The International Journal of Chemistry published an article positing Biphenyl-A, or BPA, as a primary culprit in the breast cancer
by Eleanor J. Bader Sarah Palin, on the vice-presidential campaign trail in 2008, raised the profile of a previously obscure anti-abortion group, Feminists for Life,
by Eleanor J. Bader Inside insular religious communities in the U.S. women are quietly, and sometimes covertly, rolling back limitations on women’s equal participation in
by Eleanor J. Bader Inside insular religious communities in the U.S. women are quietly, and sometimes covertly, rolling back limitations on women’s equal participation 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.