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The Latina Roundtable on Health and Reproductive Rights is founded in New York.

1989

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A group of Latinx women who are mostly of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent (including Jenny Rivera, Diana Correa, Celina Romany, and Elsa Rios) form this collective to respond to heightened attacks on Latinx communities and their reproductive freedom. Wilma Montanez serves as the organization's first Executive Director.

They will become a critical voice locally and nationally through their political education and reproductive health policy advocacy addressing issues on a local/state and national platform.

This is the first organization in New York devoted to: "advocating for increased access as a full range of quality and affordable health services and reproductive options for Latinas" (Gutierrez, 2004). They build "an action plan for Latinas on the most restrictive rights policies of the late 1980's-90's, including welfare reform and parental consent."

The Latina Roundtable on Health and Reproductive Rights will close its doors in 1998.