
A leader in the struggle for women’s rights
A leader in the struggle for women’s rights
On November 2, 1992, the Times of London printed a story “Go East, young woman” that detailed Merle Hoffman’s efforts to bring Choices East to Moscow, even instigating an Open Letter to Boris Yeltsin from Russian feminists demanding “immediate allocations of hard currency for buying modern contraceptives, and funds for up-to-date equipment and medicine to make abortion as safe as possible.”
Read Merle’s blog entries giving her personal thoughts and insights on her professional work in Russia, along with her women’s rights activism through Choices East.
I received an official invitation to lead a team of physicians and counselors from Choices to Moscow for an educational exchange.
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To start the day the Choices delegation and I met for breakfast at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. Women’s Rights Activist Alena Popova, famous for her work fighting against the Russian patriarchy, joined us.
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Today, I attended a multi-track conference on the role of women in modern society at the Civil Chamber of the Russian Federation.
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During a group discussion about healthcare in Russia, I was struck by how fear, shame and guilt seem to be all-consuming forces in the women’s lives when it comes to their health.
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