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Peg Yorkin (April 16, 1927 – June 25, 2023) was an American feminist activist, philanthropist, and fundraiser. She served as cofounder and chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation.
Jun 30, 2023 · Peg Yorkin, a feminist activist and philanthropist who as a founder of the Feminist Majority, a national women’s rights organization, campaigned to bring mifepristone, the abortion pill, to the...
Jun 27, 2023 · Peg Yorkin, the Los Angeles activist who donated $10 million to the feminist organization she co-founded and pushed to bring the most common method of abortion — the mifepristone pill — to the...
Jun 28, 2023 · Peg Yorkin, a self-described 1950s housewife who transformed herself into a leading feminist organizer and philanthropist, campaigning to expand access to abortion and to elect more women to...
Jun 27, 2023 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peg Yorkin, who donated $10 million to a feminist foundation she co-founded and pushed to bring the most common method of abortion to the United States, died Sunday night. Yorkin died at age 96 after a long illness, her daughter Nicole Yorkin said.
Jun 26, 2023 · Peg Yorkin—leading U.S. feminist, philanthropist and strategist, as well as theater producer—died on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at the age of 96. In the midst of our collective grief, we honor and pay tribute to a co-founder as well as the one and only chair of the board of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF), publisher of Ms.
Jun 28, 2023 · Peg Yorkin was a noted feminist organizer and philanthropist who co-founded the Feminist Majority Foundation and campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment and reproductive rights. She died on June 25, 2023, after living with dementia for several years.
