Career
She is best known for her support for the pro-choice movement in the United States of America and her role as co-chair for activist campaign WomenVotePA. From 1985 to 2004, Michelman served as president of National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights advocacy organization in the United States. Following her departure from National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, 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.
