Choices: A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto

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In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe V. Wade and a country divided, a pioneer in the pro-choice movement and womens healthcare offers an unapologetic and authoritative take on abortionthe front line and the bottom line of womens 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 nations largest and most comprehensive womens medical facilities. For the last five decades, Hoffman has been a steadfast warrior and fierce advocate for every womans right to choose when and whether or not to be a mother.

Now, amidst the aftermath of the Dobbs Decision, Hoffman has carefully compiled her decades of analysis, research, and experience into a tour de force manifesto that sheds light on the catastrophic repercussions of overturning Roe, and what we as a nation must do moving forward to ensure the safety and freedom of women and girls (and people with uteruses)everywhere.

InChoices, Hoffman expresses her views on where we are and what lies ahead. She covers topics ranging from: revamping the healthcare system to support womens rights; combatting rising authoritarianism; the weaponization of religion; fighting the antis; practicing courage; sabotage from within the movement; and activating the next generation in the fight for reproductive justice.

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Merle Hoffman is a journalist, activist, healthcare pioneer, and CEO and founder of Choices Women's Medical Center. She co-founded the National Abortion Federation in 1976, the first professional organization of abortion providers in the US, and in 1985 founded the New York Pro-Choice Coalition, which organized the first pro-choice disobedience action at St. Patricks Cathedral in 1989 when nine people were arrested. Hoffman is the publisher and editor-in-chief of On the Issues magazine as well asthe author ofIntimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Boardroom. She resides in New York City and East Hampton.