Steinem's lifelong career as a writer and journalist began after college. A co-founder of New York magazine in 1968, Steinem was always active in a wide array of political and social causes. She became a major feminist leader in the late 1960s and in 1971 co-founded MS Magazine, where she serves as contributing editor today.

Ellen R. Malcolm has had a long career in politics, particularly in political fundraising. She is an heiress of one of the founders of IBM. After graduating from Hollins College in 1969, she worked for Common Cause in the 1970s. She was a press secretary for National Women's Political Caucus and later Esther Peterson, special assistant for consumer affairs in the Carter administration. She went on to found EMILY's List and is now president of America Coming Together.

Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, …

Sarah Ragle Weddington (born February 5, 1945 in Abilene, Texas) is a Texas attorney and lecturer who gained world-wide fame when she and Linda Coffee represented "Jane Roe" (real name Norma McCorvey) in the landmark "Roe v. Wade" case in the United States Supreme Court.

Judith Levine (born 1952) is an American author, journalist, civil libertarian, and co-founder of the National Writers Union, a trade union of contact and freelance writers, and No More Nice Girls, a group dedicated to promoting abortion rights through street theater. She is a board member of the National Center for Reason and Justice and the Vermont chapter of the ACLU. She describes her work as "exploring the ways in which history, culture, politics, …

Linda Nellene Coffee (b. 1942) is an attorney living in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Coffee is best known for representing (along with her friend and co-counsel Sarah Weddington) Norma McCorvey (a.k.a. Jane Roe), a pregnant woman who desired an abortion, in the precedent-setting United States Supreme Court case "Roe v. Wade", in which many laws restricting abortion access were invalidated.

Elizabeth Cavendish is the executive director of Appleseed Foundation, a position she began in March 2007, a year after serving as interim president of NARAL, a prominent American pro-choice advocacy group. She gained the position in May, 2004 following the resignation of longtime NARAL president Kate Michelman. Previously, she served as NARAL's legal director and on the staff of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department under Attorney General Janet Reno.

Gloria Feldt (b. April 13, 1942 in Temple, Texas) is an American writer, commentator, and women's rights advocate. She has written two books, "The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back" and "Behind Every Choice Is a Story", as well as contributed to three others. Her commentary has been published in print and she has made appearances on television, radio, and at speaking engagements.

Susan C. Faludi (born April 18, 1959) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two well-known books: "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" (1992; ISBN 0-385-42507-4) and "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man" (1999). "Backlash" argued that the 1980s saw a backlash against feminism, especially due to the spread of negative stereotypes against career-minded women.

Ellen Jane Willis was an American political essayist, journalist, and pop music critic.

Frances Kissling (born 1943) was President of Catholics for a Free Choice from its founding in 1982 until her resignation in February 2007.

Sherri Finkbine (born as Sherri Chessan, b. 1932) is an American television actress. Finkbine was known as Miss Sherri on the local Phoenix, Arizona version of the franchised children's show, "Romper Room". In 1962, when Finkbine was pregnant with her fifth child, she had been taking Thalidomide, a drug which if taken by a pregnant woman causes the fetus(es) within her to become deformed while in utero.

Judith Jarvis Thomson (b. 1929) is a U.S. moral philosopher and metaphysician.

Carol Downer, born in 1933, is a feminist from the United States. She and Lorraine Rothman founded the Feminist Women's Health Center in 1971. Downer and Rothman promoted self-administered cervical exams and promoted non-professional abortions called menstrual extraction. Downer began her reproductive rights career on the Abortion Task Force of NOW with Lana Phelan, author of "The Abortion Handbook", who became her mentor.

Lorraine Rothman (b. 1932) was a founding member of the feminist Self-Help Clinic movement. In 1971, she invented the Del-Em menstrual extraction kit with Carol Downer, to provide abortion to women before Roe v Wade. According to Lorraine, she thought, "What did women do before there were doctors? Let's stop the humiliation of trying to persuade the powers that be to legalize abortion. Let's just take back the technology, the tools, …

Faye Wattleton (born Alyce Faye Wattleton on July 8, 1943) is the first African-American and youngest President ever elected to Planned Parenthood (1978 - 1992). Currently, she serves as the President of the Center for the Advancement of Women, and also serves on the board of trustees at Columbia University. She is best known for her contributions to the family planning and reproductive health, as well as the pro-choice movement. Wattleton was born in St.

Priscilla J. Smith is a American attorney known for her activism in reproductive rights movement. She is currently employed by the law firm Center For Reproductive Law & Policy (now renamed Center for Reproductive Rights). Smith gained fame for her role in the landmark, albeit controversial, Supreme Court case "Gonzales v. Carhart", which she argued on behalf of the abortion provider LeRoy Carhart to challenge the constitutionality of Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, …

Dr. Caroline Moreau is an American scientist and self described "pro-choice" advocate. She has conducted a number of scientific studies, some of which involve abortion and emergency contraception.

Stephen Fleck (September 18, 1912-December 19, 2002) was a professor in the Psychiatry and Epidemiology and Public Health Departments at the Yale University School of Medicine from 1953 to 1983 and professor emeritus from 1983 until his death. He had an early effect on the direction that American psychiatry took during the mid- to late-twentieth century.

Dr. Jane Elizabeth Hodgson, M.D. (b. January 23 1915, Crookston, Minnesota - d. October 23 2006) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. She is the only person ever convicted in the United States of performing an abortion in a hospital. Hodgson received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Carleton College in 1934 and her medical degree from the University of Minnesota in 1939. She trained at the Jersey City Medical Center and at the prestigious Mayo Clinic.

Joseph O'Rourke (b. 1940) is an American pro-choice activist who professes a Roman Catholic faith despite promoting reproductive rights that are at odds with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

John R. Hunting is a philanthropist who is a founder of Steelcase, an office furniture manufacture. He is known as a major contributor to liberal or progressive 527 groups and the President of the Beldon Fund. He is particularly active on environmental causes, but funds other progressive causes like the Pro-choice EMILY's List.

Bill Baird is the founder of the Pro Choice League. Baird established the nation’s first abortion referral center and the first birth control and abortion center on a college campus. He was sent to jail for teaching birth control and distributing abortion literature in New York and New Jersey and imprisoned for 10 years for his pro-choice activities. Baird's punishment galvanized radical feminists like Anne Koedt to speak out in his defense, …