By Fred Pelka PSYCHOLOGIST CAROL GlLL KNOWS THE VALUE OF HAVING federal civil rights law on your side. “When I called one of Chicago’s major
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 Fred Pelka It was obvious to me at the police station that I was held in contempt because I was a victim. And we
by Fred Pelka “For generations our institutions, and our parents, have warned us and shamed us away from our wildness – Our intuition, exuberance, and
by Fred Pelka Five months after Mark Stanton Curtis was arrested in Des Moines on charges of sexual abuse and burglary, Detroit Mayor Coleman A.
by Fred Pelka People would turn up in the Nazi camp whom I was utterly surprised to find there Claudia Koonz remembers being a grade
by Fred Pelka Judith Daire began therapy in 1971 with a psychiatrist who ended sessions with “a light embrace, and a kiss on the cheek”.
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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.