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After Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898 as a result of the Spanish–American War, women once again played an integral role in Puerto Rican society by contributing to the establishment of the University of Puerto Rico, women's suffrage, women's rights, civil rights, and to the military of the United States.
There were 19,200 abortions in 1991–1992, and 15,600 in 2001. There is an abortion rights community on the island, which is supported by a number of organizations. In 2019, International Women's Day in Puerto Rico revolved around women taking to the streets en masse to support abortion rights. There is also an anti-abortion movement in Puerto ...
Dr. María Cadilla Colón de Martínez (December 21, 1884 – August 23, 1951) was a Puerto Rican writer, educator, women's rights activist and one of the first women in Puerto Rico to earn a doctoral degree.
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
A new probe is shining a light into how and why Puerto Rican courts failed to protect Andrea Ruiz from her abusive ex-boyfriend amid a rise in the gender-based killings of women.
In 1928, she pushed for the U.S. Congress to resolve the discrepancies in voting rights for women in Puerto Rico. Faced with the possibility that the federal legislature might give women the right to vote, the Puerto Rican legislature finally passed a law in 1929 granting suffrage to literate women.
Puerto Rican members of LULAC, the nation's oldest Latino civil rights group, are growing their ranks and leadership and focusing on seeking statehood for P.R.
Ana Roque, women's rights activist. Suffragist and one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico. Blanca Canales, political activist. Nationalist leader who led the Jayuya Uprising in 1950 against U.S. colonial rule of Puerto Rico. Isabel González, civil rights activist. Young Puerto Rican mother who paved the way for Puerto Ricans to ...