by Gina Ogden Women who what?” “Women Who Love Sex,” I repeat to the interviewer on the telephone. “That’s what I call my latest book.”
by Bonnie Pfister What’s an activist to do when everyone from George Will to “Saturday Night Live” satirizes your work and accuses you of infantilizing
by Fred Pelka EXPOSING HEALTH CHAUVINISM “Nothing comes to an individual that he has not…summoned…. A person’s external circumstances do fit his level of internal
by Elayne Clift “You’ll have to have a hysterectomy, of course,” my doctor said nearly three years ago. Maybe, I thought. And maybe not. I
by Elayne Clift The controversial Arkansas physician answered questions from ON THE ISSUES contributing editor Elayne Clift in November, 1993. OTI: The offices of population affairs,
by Elayne Clift “If I could have a magic wand tomorrow and do one thing for this economy,” then President-elect Bill Clinton said last December,
by Rebecca Chalker In Los Angeles in 1971, before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, a small group of women began observing abortions in an underground
by Elayne Clift The hype is that women are frivolous, if not downright evil, frittering their time away in law school and then demanding fertility
by Rebecca Chalker Menstrual extraction (M.E.), a technique that can remove the contents of the uterus safely with a hand-held suction device, was developed in
by Louise Tyrer With abortion debates escalating, “self-help” menstrual extraction (M.E.) has been promoted as a way for women to exercise full control over 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.