Charna Flam Peg Yorkin, a noted feminist organizer and philanthropist, died Sunday at her home in Malibu. She was 96. She had dementia, her daughter, Nicole Yorkin, told the Washington Post.
Peg Yorkin, the longtime chair, and co-founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) worked to promote and encourage women to fight for women’s equality and empowerment, highlighting the importance of access to safe and affordable reproductive health care.
Throughout her years of activism, Yorkin partnered with several activists, including the former president of the National Organization for Women, Eleanor Smeal.
The two worked together on a 12-year campaign to bring the abortion pill mifepristone to the United States. In 1954, Yorkin married producer Bud Yorkin, who later partnered with “All in the Family’s” Norman Lear.
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