Providers, activists gearing up for influx of women seeking abortions in New York

Key Facts

• It was there, in a corner of Queens, that Merle Hoffman became a champion of reproductive rights.
• “Women were flying in from all over the country to get abortions,” said Hoffman, founder and CEO of Choices Women’s Medical Center in Jamaica.
• Abortion had just been decriminalized in New York, and the only other state where it was legal was Hawaii, nearly 5,000 miles away.
• Any day now, Hoffman expects the overground railroad to become a lot busier.

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