by Alexis Greene Words of Choice first emerged as a theatrical performance in the late 1990s when Cindy Cooper, its creator, was working as the Communications
by Alexis Greene April 26, 2011 Every morning the trucks roll out of the garage at Community Environmental Center (CEC), and every morning Ruby Carrasquillo
by Alexis Greene The American theater director and educator Hallie Flanagan Davis, hero of Ruth Wolff’s play Hallie, grew to womanhood during the climactic decades of American
by Alexis Greene Over the years, Bill Baird, the reproductive rights activist, has been threatened, arrested and jailed. He’s been called a seducer, a self-promoter and
by Alexis Greene Recently, while walking on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where I live, I saw a woman who made me think of
by Alexis Greene “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.” Thus speaks the character of the Congolese prostitute Salima in Lynn Nottage’s
by Alexis Greene Nikkole Salter grew up in Los Angeles. Danai Gurira was raised in Zimbabwe. In 2001, the two women, aspiring actors in their
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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.