The Abortion Rights Freedom Ride Advisory Board

For Women's Lives and Against McCarthyism: A Response to "United Statement Against Stop Patriarchy"
July 27, 2014
A Response to Recent Attacks and Invitation to All from the Advisory Board of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride 2014: Ground Zero Texas
July 10, 2014

Diane Derzis, director of the last abortion clinic in MS-Jackson Women's Health Organization

From a recent interview with Diane Derzis by the Dallas Observer:
"We became far too reliant upon courts to maintain the status quo, while our enemy is in the trenches with these churches raising money, raising time, electing people... I think it's time starting thinking outside the box, because what we've been doing has not been working."

Carol Downer, co-founder of Feminist Women’s Health Center which began doing abortions in 1971

Merle Hoffman, CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Center which began doing abortions in 1971

Wendy Robinson, Director of Voice of Choice


Mary Lou Singleton, licensed midwife and nurse practitioner, founder of Personhood for Women

"Not the Time to be Ladylike and Follow Rules Doled Out by the Establishment"
July 19, 2014
by Mary Lou Singleton, ARFR Advisory Board Member

Sunsara Taylor, Revolution newspaper, Stop Patriarchy, fighter for abortion rights since 1995