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It’s no secret that Texas is a battleground state in terms of abortion rights. Learn more about how doctors are being used as instruments of the state and how women suffer and almost die because of it.
Merle Hoffman recounts her life and career as a women’s health care activist. She recalls her founding in 1971, two years prior to the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, of Choices, an abortion clinic in New York City.
Abortion, Love, Power, and Resistance - 8/14/22
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.
BRONXNET: Breaking News Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade
Merle discusses her statement about the supreme court decisions to overturn Roe V. Wade
Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights Speak Out (2022)
“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)
The Abortion Rights Emergency — STOP the War on Women! (2015)
Abortion Rights Emergency Speak Out, NYC (2014)
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 Hoffman, Abortion Rights Freedom Rider on (2014)
Merle urges people to act: “Do whatever you can to become a freedom rider for women’s lives.”
Veteran Feminists of America Pioneer Histories: Merle Hoffman (2013)
VFA and Kate Millett honor Merle with the Reproductive Justice Award, 2013.
Healer: Design and Reproductive Health (2013)
Merle Hoffman speaks with Women on Waves founder Rebecca Gomperts.
Press Club Rewind (2012)
Merle Hoffman brings the reality of abortion and women’s lives to the National Press Club, Washington D.C.
CapitalNewYork.com (2012)
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 (2012)
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.
Choices Women's Medical Center (2012)
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.”
Intimate Wars: Abortionmics and Russia (2011)
Abortionomics study: Merle Hoffman releases a study that revealed how economics is a major factor in women’s need for abortion.
Intimate Wars by Merle Hoffman (2011)
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.
Tribute to Betty Friedan (2006)
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.”
25 Years of Choices (1996)
A high school student interviews Merle Hoffman on sex education in schools, personal relationships and feminism.
Abortion: A Different Light (1982)
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.