by Merle Hoffman “Patient #4 in recovery was moved by your work and wants to see you.” When my assistant’s …
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in Flushing, New York in 1971, women …
by Merle Hoffman When I first opened a clinic for women’s abortion care in New York in 1971, women finally …
by Merle Hoffman All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, …
by Merle Hoffman All my life there was a kind of disconnect between my internal and external realities. “Funny,” people …
by Merle Hoffman Children are natural resistance fighters. From the time they realize that they have the agency (if not …
by Merle Hoffman There is one place where the definition of gender remains binary – in the womb. When it …
by Merle Hoffman Growing up in Philadelphia in the 50s, girls were labeled sluts if they dressed provocatively, let boys …
by Merle Hoffman As a person who feels that war should be the strategy of last resort, I still like to …
by Merle Hoffman In our Spring ’09 edition, On The Issues Magazine writers and artists discuss feminist and progressive values …
by Merle Hoffman We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. Here’s one response. Oscar …
by Merle Hoffman Welcome to the May/June 2008 edition of On The Issues Magazine Online, the first full edition of our new Internet …
Twenty-five years ago I began On the Issues as a newsletter of Choices Women’s Medical Center in an effort to …
by Merle Hoffman THE NEW PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELINGInterview with Lou Marinoff by Merle Hoffman Call me elitist, but I have always …
by Merle Hoffmnan I had gone to bed in my habitual way — very late, with some difficulty, the muted …
by Merle Hoffman No passionate love letters, no dark night of the soul; just a demand to kiss it — …
by Merle Hoffman You’re going where? The insistent questioning by family and friends reverberated in my head as I flew over …
by Merle Hoffman For the first time, women were in control of patient referrals and clinics, while physicians were brought …
by Merle Hoffman In a world with no more Wests to conquer or empires to build, where risk-taking comes packaged …
by Merle Hoffman “We the People of South AfricaRecognize the injustices of our pasthonor those who suffered for justice and …
by Merle Hoffman The tragic case of Amy Grossberg and Brian Peterson It was just another baby in the garbage, …
by Merle Hoffman Americans are a nation of people who feel supremely entitled to happiness. After all, in the first …
by Merle Hoffman Everest — avatar of the Himalayas.Everest — whom the Nepalese call Sagamartha and the Tibetans call Chomolungma …
by MERLE HOFFMAN Elizabeth I had a proper perspective on political marriage. Having seen both her mother and her stepmother …
by Merle Hoffman The symptoms arrived a few years ago. At first I experienced them as a generalized discomfort, amorphous …
by Merle Hoffman I KNEW THAT THINGS HAD CHANGED WHEN I WAS HANDED a button that read “I’m Pro-Choice and …
by Merle Hoffman For in other ways, a woman Is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold Steel; …
by Merle Hoffman By nature, I am a romantic and have had warrior fantasies since my early adolescence. Surrounding myself …
by Merle Hoffman The Congressman arrived flushed with triumph. He had just been part of the victorious vote on the …
by Merle Hoffman Somewhere in the course of planning my latest journey to Russia I lost my fear of flying. …
by Merle Hoffman Why haven’t candidates, especially, women candidates, made violence against women – and specifically rape – a central …
by Merle Hoffman Question: What would you do if you found yourself in a room with Hitler, Mussolini, and an …
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