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Lucinda Cisler (born October 30, 1938) is an American abortion rights activist, Second Wave feminist, and member of the New York-based radical feminist group the Redstockings. Her writings on unnecessary obstructions to medical abortion procedures in may ways predicted anti-abortion strategies in the 2010s, called [|Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP)] by abortion rights advocates.

Early life
Cisler graduated from Vassar College in 1959. She received a B.Arch. from Yale University and an M. Arch., M.C.P., and Certificate in Civic Design from the University of Pennsylvania.

Activism
As a member of the Redstockings, Cisler participated in the infamous 1968 picketing of the Miss America pageant. Her sign read: "women are enslaved by beauty standards." She contributed a chapter, "Unfinished Business : Birth control and women's liberation", to Sisterhood is Powerful : An anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement, compiled by Robin Morgan.

Abortion activism
Cisler's essay on anti-abortion tactics appeared in the publication Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation, edited by Shulamith Firestone. "Abortion law repeal (sort of): a Warning to Women," argued that settling for reform to existing abortion law would result in a world "in which abortion is grudgingly parceled out by hospital committee fiat to the few women who can 'prove' they’ve been raped, or who are crazy, or are in danger of bearing a defective baby."