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Article: Family planning crusader battles Mexico's growth
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 14, 1987
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. She is one of Mexico's foremost birth-control
crusaders - and a practicing Catholic.
And according to Guadalupe Arizpe De la Vega (Lupe to her
friends), those descriptions need not be contradictions in terms.
De la Vega is the president and founder of FEMAP, Mexico's
Federation of Private Family Planning Associations, a network of
clinics that has grown from having an estimated 50,000 Mexican women
use birth-control methods in 1982 to having about 360,000 use them
now.
The wife of a successful businessman and the mother of three
grown children, she began working with poor female factory workers in
her home town of Juarez in 1973. Her organization has grown from a ...