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SWLC has a new look.

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The Southwest Women’s Law Center is in the process of updating its brand and its website. 

I started as the Executive Director in January 2019. Following the steps of our two previous dynamic Directors, SWLC is on the path to building a bold and robust future for all New Mexican women and girls, and we want our presence to reflect that. Our work will continue to be highlighted here on our new website as we update our platform, along with using social and print media. Our prior work will be preserved and maintained, as recognition and part of SWLC’s rich past.  

Thank you to all the current and past staff, Board of Directors, legal interns, consultants, and our supporters.

Terrelene Massey
Executive Director

Access to Reproductive Health Care

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How can we bring comprehensive and affordable abortion care to the most marginalized individuals? Reproductive justice leaders weigh in on the subject on Colorlines.com including SWLC’s Executive Director, Terrelene Massey.

I’ve seen first-hand how Indigenous women and communities face too many barriers to have our basic needs met—and that includes access to reproductive health care. Since 1976, the Hyde Amendment has prohibited the use of federal funds to cover abortions for those who access health care through Medicaid or the Indian Health Service. Hyde and other intersecting, discriminatory policies have worked together to hack away at the full promise of Roe v. Wade for Indigenous people.

We’re fighting for a future that includes all of us, and leaves no one—including Indigenous people and those of us living on reservations, Indian land and in rural areas—behind. Our work must do more than sustain abortion rights as they are. Reproductive health care must be affordable and geographically accessible for the most marginalized communities, and to achieve this vision for all of us, we must follow the lead of the Indigenous women and people most impacted by this fight.

Terrelene Massey, Executive Director
Southwest Women’s Law Center


Read full Op-Ed here

Photo Credit: Alfred Gescheidt/Getty Images, Pro-Choice March in Washington D.C., May 4, 1992

SWLC presents Cocktails & Conversations

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Join Southwest Women’s Law Center staff and Board of Directors for an evening of refreshments, drinks and live music.

We are looking forward to a nice evening with live music, a silent auction, refreshments, and drinks. At the event, we will be updating you on our 2019 activities and will be providing a preview of our 2020 work. You will meet our Board of Directors, our Executive Director, and our new staff. We want to honor you, our supporters, and thank you for standing with us. Upward and onward!

To register for the event, please CLICK HERE.

If you are unable to join us on December 5th but would still like to make an end-of-year contribution, please CLICK HERE.

Equity in the Workplace:
Know Your Rights

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This is a free community event. Please RSVP by calling 505-244-0502 to let us know you’ll attend. Light refreshments will be provided. Join us at Loma Colorado Main Library on November 20 at 6 p.m. to learn about laws that protect you from discrimination in the workplace. We will also discuss workplace-related laws that we are working to pass here in New Mexico, including Pregnant Worker Accommodation Act and Paid Family and Medical Leave Act.