Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room-Fast Shipping

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Title: Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room

Author: Merle Hoffman

ISBN: 9781558617513

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2012

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: Available as an ebook on:

Number of Pages: 336

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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A “searingly honest debut memoir” from an activist and award-winning journalist who made a woman’s right to choose her life’s work (Kirkus Reviews). Merle Hoffman had built a life as a classical pianist and self-made millionaire before her passion for the equality and freedom of girls and women drew her to a bigger cause: protecting a woman’s right to have a safe and legal abortion. Hoffman became an expert in women’s reproductive healthcare and used her entrepreneurial spirit to build one of the most comprehensive women’s medical centers in the country. In 1971, two years before the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision made abortion legal throughout the US, Hoffman founded the New York abortion clinic Choices. As a medical provider, she pioneered “patient power,” encouraging women to participate in their own health care decisions. Through her singular journey, Hoffman had many loves and even adopted a daughter from Russia, but never wavered in her commitment to fighting on the front lines of the feminist movement.