Career
For nearly 20 years, Michelman served as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, a pro-choice activist organization dedicated to repealing abortion laws and restrictions in the United States. Under her leadership from 1985 to 2004, NARAL Pro-Choice America catapulted into national spotlight and became the premier advocacy group for reproductive rights. She is a recognized expert on not only women's issues, but on grassroots organizing and strategic organizational development as NARAL Pro-Choice American has effectively transformed the political debate and positioned reproductive justice as an unequivocal human right.
Following her departure from NARAL, she worked as a political consultant and published her memoir, With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose, with Hudson Street Press in 2006. She also testified against Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas at their confirmation hearings. In 2003, Michelman was named on the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powered Women."
In 2012, she and Carol Tracy were selected to be co-chairs of WomenVotePA, a nonpartisan political campaign focused on raising women voter turnout in the state of Pennsylvania and making clear that women's health, economic security, and personal safety are at stake in every election.
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