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.

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, …

Bella Savitsky Abzug was a well-known American political figure and a leader of the women's movement. She famously said, "This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives," in her successful 1970 campaign to join that body.

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.

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a Democratic politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is best known as the first and only woman to date to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President. Ferraro and running mate Walter Mondale were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush in the 1984 election.

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.

Eve Ensler (born 25 May 1953 in Scarsdale, New York) is a Jewish American playwright and feminist activist best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.

Nancy Keenan , President NARAL Pro-Choice America's president is an experienced public official who has won three statewide elections; a lifelong activist with a deep commitment to a woman's right to choose and right to privacy; and a dynamic leader who will build the strength of our powerful grassroots presence across the country.

Dr. Ellie Lee is a lecturer in social policy at the University of Kent in Kent, United Kingdom. In 1996 she founded the Pro-Choice Forum, and is a member of the Institute of Ideas, a left-wing think tank. She wrote for the now defunct magazine "Living Marxism" and writes for its successor, "LM Magazine". She is a member of the Marxist LM group.

Ayn Rand (March 6 1982), born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher, best known for creating a philosophy she named "Objectivism" and for writing the novels "We the Living," "The Fountainhead," "Atlas Shrugged" and the novella "Anthem." Her influential and controversial ideas have attracted both enthusiastic admiration and scathing denunciation. <br

Ann Furedi (born c. 1961) is the chief executive of BPAS, the UK's largest independent abortion provider. Furedi has worked in reproductive health care for more than 20 years, mainly in policy and communications. She ran the press office of the UK Family Planning Association before leading Birth Control Trust, a charity that advocated the need for research and development in methods of contraception and abortion. Before joining BPAS, as its chief executive in June 2003, …

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.

Germaine Greer (born January 29, 1939) is an Australian-born writer, broadcaster and retired academic, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the 20th century. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her ground-breaking "The Female Eunuch" became an international best-seller in 1970, turning her overnight into a household name and bringing her both adulation and criticism.

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.

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.

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

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

Granny D (born Ethel Doris Haddock, January 24, 1910) is an American politician and liberal political activist from the state of New Hampshire. Noted for her colorful character, warm personality, and advanced age, Haddock famously walked across the continental United States in 1999 to advocate campaign finance reform and in 2004 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Judd Gregg for the U.S. Senate.

Joan Graeme Malleson, née Billson, was an English physician, specialist in contraception and prominent advocate of the legalisation of abortion. Malleson was born at Ulverscroft, Leicestershire. She was educated at Bedales School, where she became Head Girl, and went on to study medicine at University College, London in 1918, later moving to Charing Cross Hospital due to the hostility to female students she experienced at UCL.

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.

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, …

Jonathan Glover is a British philosopher who is known for his studies on bioethics. He was born in 1941 and he was educated in Tonbridge School, later going on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was a fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, Oxford. He currently teaches ethics at King's College in the University of London. In 1977 he argued that to call a foetus a human person was to stretch the term beyond its natural boundaries.

Alice Bush (1914-1974) was a pioneering New Zealand female doctor, pediatrician and activist for family planning services and abortion access.

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.

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