by Mary Lou Greenberg “Silence = Death.” The shout of AIDS activists cut like a knife through public ignorance, denial and official disregard of HIV/AIDS in
by Deborah Shouse My friend Elizabeth is in prison. “Please send me poetry books,” she writes. I imagine her sitting in her cell until lights
by Loretta Williams It started just as the bus left the expressway. The familiar warmth began somewhere near my waistline, and crept upward, spreading a
by Jody Lannen Brady My grandmother told me the same stories over and over. Many times she’d recount the tale of receiving her first paycheck
by Michelle Brockway She crouched behind the bed and whispered into the phone. She had called the police, she said. A voice outside the bedroom
by Phyllis Chesler When in doubt or trouble, but also in times of joy, I always return to the sea: to put things in perspective.
by Merle Hoffman No passionate love letters, no dark night of the soul; just a demand to kiss it — not even to kiss ME.
by Marilyn Stasio Between the depression and the danger, the fear and the futility, what makes these women go through this kind of hell, anyway?
by Sanda Balaban Dear Phyllis: As you know, I was born in 1972, the same year as your book Women and Madness. In the twenty-six years
by Phyllis Chesler Here I sit, head bent, writing you an intimate letter. I sense your presence, even though I don’t know your name. I
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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.