Marge Piercy Pens Poem on Heroines for New Issue It’s a great story, but I’m bothered by the fact that women …. particularly feminists …….are
Thursday, November 19, 2009 Betsy Hartmann’s “The ‘New’ Population Control Craze: Retro, Racist, Wrong Way to Go” is way off base. Common sense tells us
Thursday, November 5, 2009 Loretta Ross’s article “Birthers and Birchers: Hiding Behind Stars and Stripes” is a malicious caricature of the John Birch Society and
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 I loved Eleanor Bader’s article Beginning with the Children! It does a great job of describing the work of my organization,
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Thank you for your profile(Fall 2009) of Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility. As a former Assistant Principal in the NYC
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 I am a gay man. I am on the Committee of the Eastern Cape Gay & Lesbian Association in South Africa.
September 4, 2009 Just now found On The Issues online!!I was a subscriber to your print edition. SO PLEASED TO HAVE FOUND YOU AGAIN! Any
September 1, 2009 Linda’s interview with Elisabeth Sackler is excellent. I interviewed Sackler several years ago and was delighted to see that she has carried
August 19, 2009 I had a conversation with a young woman who is expecting twins…her long term relationship with the father ended at almost the
August 18, 2009 Few could imagine how tired I am of reading mindless repetition of the party line “subordinated the female to the male,” as
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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.