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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“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.