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NY Times Feature on Merle Hoffman

She Ran an Abortion Clinic Before Roe v. Wade. She Has Some Thoughts.

In 1970, three years before the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, four states, New York among them, repealed their anti-abortion statutes. At the time, Merle Hoffman was a concert pianist who had recently given up her professional ambitions. The world of classical music was too hermetic, but the sweeping political currents of the ’60s had not drawn her in either. She settled on graduate school in psychology, supporting herself with three jobs, one of them in the office of a doctor who wanted to open an abortion clinic and asked her to run it.
Merle Hoffman with Liz Abzug.

Hoffman receives 2015 “Bella” Award

"I always thought of Bella when I found myself speaking to crowds and exhorting and inspiring them to fight against another kind of war, a war that continues today, a multi-national and -generational war against women.
Merle Hoffman 108 minutes

108 Minutes With Merle Hoffman

Merle Hoffman, ­reproductive-rights activist, describes herself as the woman who brought abortion from the back alley to the boardroom.
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