THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Merle Hoffman
“Bringing Courage, Vision and Mission-Driven Services to the Battle for Women’s Rights.”
A leader in the struggle for women’s rights. Social psychologist, author, speaker, publisher, producer, director, political organizer and pioneer in the delivery of women’s health services. Founder and CEO of the Choices Women’s Medical Center, one of the first legal abortion centers in the county, founded in 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade. Co-founder and first President of the first national professional organization of abortion providers, the National Abortion Federation (NAF) and founder of the New York Pro-Choice Coalition.
March 2019
More About Merle:
- Merle Hoffman website
- Choices Women’s Medical Center, Inc.
- Choices Global Institute of Healing & Education
- Intimate Wars by Merle Hoffman
- A guide to the Merle Hoffman papers
- VFA Fabulous Feminist Biography
- VFA and Kate Millett honor Merle with the Reproductive Justice Award 2013
- Merle questions Ruth Bader Ginsburg – VFA event ,2008
- VFA honors Merle – Barnard College NYC 2002
- Cited in Barbara Love’s Feminists Who Changed America – pages 217-218