by Sallie Bingham The statistics about violence against women in the United States have a deadly sameness that can numb minds and hearts: 95 thousand
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by Sabrina Margarita Alcantara When sexual harassment turns racist, I summon up ancestral resistance. I’ve had my share of put-downs on the streets. Sometimes I
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by Anne Tully I could be fired for telling this story. “Anne Tully” is the pseudonym of a prosecutor in a large city district attorney’s
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by Joy Ward Judge David Lanier, called by some “The Grabber.” This man is a proven sexual predator. Why is the Constitution on his side?
by Phyllis Chesler There she was, on the front page of the American newspapers, a 20-year-old Bosnian Moslem girl, hanging from a tree, a suicide, dead
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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.