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Rounding Up The Pro-Choice Troops: When We Started Fighting Back

by Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine

December 11, 2011 - 10:50am (Print)

In 1989, the historic bifurcation between abortion providers and political activists had finally begun to dissolve, and a powerful new alliance was beginning to form. Providers were now at the forefront of the abortion rights struggle, and patients themselves, in the midst of the most personal and intimate of decisions and life events, were thrust into a vortex of politics and passion. This is one story from that time.

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The Opening of a Russian Front in the Abortion Wars

by Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine

June 13, 2011 - 9:18am (Print)

Russia has embraced their very own anti-choice movement, and it looks strikingly like ours here in the U.S.

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Selecting the Same Sex

by Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine

August 10, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)

While sex selective abortion allows women to make what is, in a sense, the ultimate in supposedly informed consumerism, it also can work to create a world where being female is viewed as the primary and most terminal of birth defects.

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The Dangerous Complacency of Victory

by Merle Hoffman, On The Issues Magazine

November 17, 2008 - 8:00am (Print)

The worst years of abortion clinic violence occurred during the Clinton presidency. Without a "friend in the White House," will anti-abortion extremists ratchet up violence against clinics again? Hoffman, an abortion provider, shares her fears.

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