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For more than 30 years, Merle Hoffman has revolutionized women's health care and women's lives. She founded one of the nation's first abortion clinics in 1971, making Choices Women's Medical Center one of the largest feminist health facilities in the nation, adding Choices Mental Health Center in 1995. Hoffman founded "On the Issues" magazine, a radical feminist quarterly. She is an internationally recognized leader in the struggle for social justice and women's rights.
CHOICES Women's Medical Center
Founded in 1971 by a leader in women’s rights, CHOICES is dedicated to providing women with all the medical options available before, during and after pregnancy. CHOICES Women's Medical Center is a women owned, women operated, New York State licensed facility, located minutes from mid-town Manhattan.
Choices Mental Health Center
Though no longer operating, Choices Mental Health Center's website provides important information that we will maintain online.
Gloria Feldt
Gloria Feldt can be found on the web at www.GloriaFeldt.com. Her much-quoted Heartfeldt Politics Blog offers a unique take on current events from where the political and personal meet.
NOW New York State
NOW-New York State (NOW-NYS) is the statewide Chapter of NOW in New York State. It is the largest women's political action organization in New York, representing over 40,000 women and men in 24 chapters. We are dedicated to fighting for women's equality and to improving the status of women in New York.
RH Reality Check
RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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On The Issues would like to acknowledge and thank the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, Duke University Libraries for their support.
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Feminist Peace Network
The Feminist Peace Network provides in-depth analysis of the impact of violence on women's lives and highlights the many ways women are working to end the many forms of violence and promote a sustainable peace.
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Intimate Wars
The Life and Times
of the Woman
Who Brought Abortion
from the
Back Alley
to the
Board Room
• Merle Hoffman, publisher of On The Issues Magazine
IntimateWars.com
CURRENT ISSUE
Winter 2012
Realities of The Waiting Room: Constantly Shifting by Lori Adelman
Anti-Abortion Harassment and Violence Still Stifle Access by Eleanor J. Bader
We're Not Sorry. Still. by Jennifer Baumgardner
The Poet's Eye From Poetry Co-Editor Sarah Browning
Calling Black LGBTQ Institutions: Where Are You? Where is Reproductive Justice? by Jasmine Burnett
Privacy at Stake: Patients, Clinics and Electronic Medical Records by Corinne A. Carey
Can We Choose Move Forward on Reproductive Justice? -- And How? by Ayesha Chatterjee and Judy Norsigian
"Love Means Second Chances": Reproductive Freedom in a Novel by Susan Elizabeth Davis
Satirist's View: Same Old Dilemma, or The Virgin Rebirth by Susie Day
As Access Slides, Feminists Need to "Extract" From Our Self-Help Past by Carol Downer
Abortion: On The Issues Magazine - by The Editors
How Anti-Abortion Protesters Got Me: Letter From a Young Activist by Sarah Flint Erdreich
The Grand Folly of Focusing on "Common Ground" by Gloria Feldt
Before "Roe": Legal Battles, Involuntary Servitude, My Mom by Justine Goodman
Next Generation Access: Medical Students Fill A Void by Mary Lou Greenberg
The Power of Theater: "Words of Choice" Touches Hearts by Alexis Greene
Where the Reality of Abortion Resides: Intimate Wars by Merle Hoffman
Gone Too Far? Reproductive Politics in the Time of Obama by Carole Joffe
Lila Rose: A Sweet Face to Accompany Extreme Anti-abortion Claims by Kathryn Joyce
Glorifying the Fetus While Ignoring the Fetal Environment by Margie Kelly
Reframing Compassionate Care: Of Madame Restell and Other Outlaws by Jeannie Ludlow
Helping Bloggers To Help: Tips for Reproductive Health Organizations by Amanda Marcotte
What To Do When They Say Holocaust by Carol Mason
"Silent Choices": African American Women Open Up on Film by Faith Pennick
Fine Thoughts On Fertilized Personhood by Marge Piercy
Heading Toward Menopause, Still Caring about Abortion by Andrea Plaid
Letter to a Young Activist: Don’t Drop the Banner by Barbara Santee
Redefining Chutzpah: More Bad Ideas to Burden Women by Aram A. Schvey
Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge on Abortion by Ria Sen and The Feminist Press
An Abortion Miracle? Let's Try the First Amendment by Priscilla Smith
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