Merle Hoffman
speaks at Women's Equality Day Tribute to Betty Friedan,
Feminists Moving Forward, Our Past is Our Future, August 2006, NYC.
Ms. Hoffman recounts her first experience assisting a woman
in need of an abortion, details current attacks on the
right to abortion and birth control,
and calls on women to act to defend these rights.
She is introduced by
pro-choice activist Mary Lou Greenberg.
To learn more, we invite you to view Abortion: A Different Light, produced on the 25th Anniversary of Choices Women's Medical Center.
At CHOICES, we emphasize our philosophy of Patient Power, which means being an informed consumer of medical treatment with the knowledge and information that enables each individual to make appropriate decisions about medical care, whether in the area of general health, surgery or birth control.