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The mission of the Southwest Women’s Law Center is to create the opportunity for women to realize their full economic and personal potential by:
- eliminating gender bias, discrimination and harassment;
- lifting women and their families out of poverty; and
- ensuring that all women have full control over their reproductive lives through access to comprehensive reproductive health services and information.
Guiding Principles
The Center seeks unique and creative ideas and collaborations to accomplish our mission, and our advocacy is guided by the following principles:
- there is a significant relationship between gender bias and discrimination, poverty, and reproductive justice;
- legal advocacy is necessary to create the systemic changes needed to improve the lives of a large number of women and girls;
- women of color, including immigrant women, face additional obstacles and discrimination that must be considered in all aspects of our work;
- our agenda should arise in part from ideas and information received from community-based service providers and advocates who work on behalf of low-income women and girls in New Mexico; and
- collaborations at the national and local level are essential for identifying and implementing the most effective strategies for fulfilling the Center’s mission.
Long-Term Goals
Girls in New Mexico have the educational opportunities and support needed to remain in school and obtain a high school diploma.
The working poor and survivors of domestic and sexual violence have sufficient time off to address family and medical issues, and, in the case of survivors, to deal with the aftermath of the violence.
All women of childbearing age in New Mexico have access to comprehensive family planning and reproductive health services.
All young people in New Mexico receive age-appropriate, medically accurate comprehensive sexuality education.
New Mexico courts preserve and expand the legal rights and protections afforded to women and girls in New Mexico under federal and state law.
Community-based agencies that work with women and girls are able to increase opportunities for their clients to receive necessary services and attain economic self-sufficiency through legal advocacy.
Other Regional Women’s Law Centers
California Women’s Law Center
Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund
Legal Voice
Women’s Law Center of Maryland
Women’s Law Project
New Mexico Resources
American Association of University Women of New Mexico
American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico
Center for Equality and Rights
Enlace Comunitario
Equality New Mexico
NARAL Pro-Choice New Mexico
New Mexicans for Responsible Sexuality Education
New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty
New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence
New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women
New Mexico Domestic Violence Leadership Commission
New Mexico Governor’s Women’s Health Advisory Council
New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
New Mexico Teen Pregnancy Coalition
New Mexico Voices for Children
Pegasus Legal Services for Children
Planned Parenthood of New Mexico
Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico
Southwest Creations
Tewa Women United
Young Women United
National Resources
Center for WorkLife Law
Compassion and Choices
Guttmacher Institute
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Legal Momentum
MergerWatch Project
NARAL Pro-Choice America
National Abortion Federation
National Committee on Pay Equity
National Council for Research on Women
National Institute for Reproductive Health
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Organization for Women
National Pacific Asian Women’s Forum
National Partnership for Women and Families
National Women’s Law Center
Raising Women’s Voices
Women’s Sports Foundation
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