Yorkin’s work was crucial to increasing the number of women serving in elected office and securing the abortion pill in the U.S.
are conducted with the use of mifepristone. The medication has great potential to treat many diseases and cancers primarily impacting women.
In 1987, Yorkin, Smeal , Spillar, Toni Carabillo and Judith Meuli formed FMF and FM. Yorkin became chair of the Board of Directors for both groups. For over three decades, the organization has spearheaded major projects to empower women and gain gender equality. In 1990, Yorkin, Smeal, FMF’s 10-member scientific and medical delegation, and other feminist leaders including Patricia Ireland, then-executive vice president of NOW, traveled to Paris and Frankfurt to meet with executives of Roussel Uclaf and Hoechst AG, the owner of Roussel Uclaf. The campaign, which lasted about 12 years, delivered over 700,000 petitions to the executives at the two pharmaceutical companies, urging them to let mifepristone come to the U.S.
She gave contributions to many political candidates—mostly women. At one event honoring Peg, former Sen. Barbara Mikulski quipped, Peg is “virtually a political action committee for women candidates.” A long-time active member of the Los Angeles-based, Peg Yorkin was a strong supporter of many members of Congress, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, former Sen. Barbara Boxer and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
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