A pioneer in women's reproductive health services since 1971...

In 2011 to 2012, Merle Hoffman celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Choices Women's Medical Center and the publication of her memoirs:

INTIMATE WARS

The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
by Merle Hoffman

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This week from Merle: "Intimate Wars by Merle Hoffman"

Merle Hoffman talks about "Intimate Wars"

Merle Hoffman is the publisher/editor-in-chief of On The Issues Magazine and one of the most outspoken advocates for progressive and feminist issues.

Merle established Choices Women's Medical Center to provide abortion services shortly after New York State legalized abortion in 1971. Today, Choices has grown to become one of the most comprehensive and nationally well respected providers of a full range of gynecological services for women, including abortion to 24 weeks of pregnancy, birth control and pre-natal care..

In 1983 Merle began On the Issues Magazine as a newsletter of Choices Women's Medical Center to communicate with other health care providers, pro-choice activists and the reproductive health care community generally. Within a few years it had developed into On the Issues, the Progressive Woman's Quarterly, gaining accolades as a motivating, challenging and controversial magazine of ideas and action. After ceasing publication in 1999, On the Issues Magazine was reborn as an online publication in Spring 2008 and publishes all-new, themed editions quarterly with new articles added weekly.

Read Merle's editorials, play the videos of her speeches, and open your mind and heart to her passionate, provocative ideas and analyses.

Link to On The Issues, Selecting The Same Sex by Merle Hoffman

We are delighted and proud to announce that:

The Newswomen's Club of New York has awarded Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Merle Hoffman its 2010 Front Page Award for political commentary.

Hoffman’s article, “Selecting the Same Sex,” appeared in the “Our Genders Our Rights” edition of On The Issues Magazine and discusses the complex, troubling practice of aborting female fetuses while firmly upholding women's right to abortion.

"On The Issues Magazine" Winter 2012:

The Ecology of Women, On the Issues Magazine Spring 2011

What's next for women's autonomy? To mark four decades of women exercising the right to abortion, our contributors share ideas & actions in On The Issues Magazine Winter 2012.

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