Coalition of Mexican Feminist Women
Coalición de Mujeres Feministas | |
| Formation | 1976 |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Activism |
| Origins | Mexico |
Official language | Spanish |
Publication | Cihuat |
| Affiliations | Movimento Nacional de Mujeres, Movimento Feminista Mexicano, Colectivo de Mujeres, Movimiento de Liberación de la Mujer, el Grupo Lucha Feminsta and El Colectivo La Revuelta. |
The Coalition of Mexican Feminist Women (Coalición de Mujeres Feministas) was an organization established by Mexican feminists in 1976. The Coalición de Mujeres Feministas was formed by six feminist groups: Movimento Nacional de Mujeres (Women's National Movement), Movimento Feminista Mexicano (Mexican Feminists' Movement), Colectivo de Mujeres (Women's Collective), Movimiento de Liberación de la Mujer (Women's Liberation Movement), el Grupo Lucha Feminist (The Feminist Struggle Group) and El Colectivo La Revuelta (The Collective The Revolt). The Coalición de Mujeres Feministas created their own feminist newspaper publication, CIHUAT, that was active from 1977 to 1978.
The Coalición's priority was to decriminalize abortion in Mexico. The Coalición highlighted that the highest rate of abortions were registered in Mexico by women who had at least two children. In September 1977, at the Coalición's second National Conference on Abortion, members drafted a law to decriminalize abortion, the 'Law of Voluntary Motherhood.' They presented the bill to the Chamber of Deputies in December 1977 and demonstrated outside until they were allowed in for an audience with a legislator from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which did not sponsor the bill before Congress.