By Cindy Cooper May 5, 2012 In 1892, suffragist and temperance leader Frances Elizabeth Willard had a truly wild idea: she would learn to ride
By Cindy Cooper November 3, 2011 “I think there may be a new page that we’ve come to the United States,” author, activist and professor
by Cindy Cooper June 6, 2011 Dr. Theo Colborn is often compared to Rachel Carson, whose famous book, Silent Spring will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.
By Cindy Cooper The biggest feminist con ever might be the failure to inscribe equal rights into the United States Constitution. Now, the effort to
By Cindy Cooper The count is four to zero. Four times voters have been asked to consider anti-abortion ballot measures that would ban abortion in
by Cindy Cooper Perhaps one of the biggest impediments to women’s equality in the United States is a pervasive, persistent and too-common myth: it’s all
by Cindy Cooper Editor’s Note: Urgent circumstances call for early publication of this story planned for our Winter 2010 edition on women of courage. Aminatou
by Cindy Cooper What revolutions do we need? “We still need the feminist revolution,” Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said in a video commentary
By Kathryn Joyce, Esther Kaplan, Sunsara Taylor, Cindy Cooper As I stood listening to Sarah Palin speak inside a stadium of 6,000 or so in
By Cindy Cooper An invaluable health website has special promise for women with HIV-AIDS, but not enough are using it. The new site, PatientsLikeMe (a
On The Issues Magazine Online is a successor to the progressive, feminist quarterly print publication from 1983 to 1999.
© 2023 On The Issues Magazine
Website & SEO By: MI Digital Solution
“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.