Assembly Member Seawright welcomes author and activist Merle Hoffman to the Assembly Chamber.

Merle discusses personal, political, psychological, and philosophical reflections of her 51-year journey as one of the first abortion providers in the country before Roe, building the largest and most comprehensive feminist medical center in the US, some of her battles in the on-going war against women’s freedom, her work in Russia, her radical political work in the past and during this current crisis, and her own abortion.

Merle discusses her statement about the supreme court decisions to overturn Roe V. Wade

“One of the most dangerous enemies to women’s freedom and women’s rights has outposts in our heads– guilt, shame, I’m not a ‘good girl’…”

The Abortion Rights Emergency — STOP the War on Women! (2015)

Speakers included poet Marge Piercy, Minister Donna Schaper, abortion providers Dr. Willie Parker and Merle Hoffman who said: “The power of the state must stop at our skins.”

Merle urges people to act: “Do whatever you can to become a freedom rider for women’s lives.”

VFA and Kate Millett honor Merle with the Reproductive Justice Award, 2013.

Merle Hoffman speaks with Women on Waves founder Rebecca Gomperts.

Merle Hoffman brings the reality of abortion and women’s lives to the National Press Club, Washington D.C.

Nearing Roe’s 40 th anniversary, Merle Hoffman says: “women in this city have to run a vicious gauntlet of demonstrators, I call them bullies and the American Taliban.”

Merle Hoffman, Feminist Warrior Healer, speaks about her early history as a budding concert pianist in her teens to a pioneer in women’s health.

On the 40th Anniversary of Choices, Merle recalls holding the hand of her first patient when abortion was still illegal in most of the country: “It’s been an extraordinary journey.”

Abortionomics study: Merle Hoffman releases a study that revealed how economics is a major factor in women’s need for abortion.

Merle Hoffman holds up huge coathanger in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral at first ever pro-choice civil disobedience action. Nine were arrested. One news report called it “an important strategic change in the movement.” It was the first time pro-choice advocates had been arrested supporting abortion rights.

Merle Hoffman speaks at Tribute to Betty Friedan: Feminists Moving Forward, Our Past is Our Future, speaking to how “Feminism is the theory, abortion is the practice.”

A high school student interviews Merle Hoffman on sex education in schools, personal relationships and feminism.

Abortion: A Different Light, produced by Merle Hoffman in 1982 and featuring prominent figures in the battle for safe, legal reproductive rights, including Sarah Weddington, attorney who represented “Jane Roe” before the Supreme Court in 1973; Bill Baird, pioneer in the battle for legal birth control; and others.