Graciela Olivarez was a high school dropout who became the first Mexican American woman graduate of Notre Dame Law School, and the highest-ranking Hispanic woman in President Jimmy Carter's administration. Along with Betty Friedan, she was a charter member of NOW, which was founded in 1966 to protest a federal ruling which upheld sex-segregated ads. But that was before NOW supported abortion. Olivarez called upon anyone who considered the unborn child "a mass of cells" to witness an abortion procedure, as she had done, and before Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, she detailed the harms of making abortion more accessible:
Graciela Olivarez was a high school dropout who became the first Mexican American woman graduate of Notre Dame Law School, and the highest-ranking Hispanic woman in President Jimmy Carter's administration. Along with Betty Friedan, she was a charter member of NOW, which was founded in 1966 to protest a federal ruling which upheld sex-segregated ads. But that was before NOW supported abortion. Olivarez called upon anyone who considered the unborn child "a mass of cells" to witness an abortion procedure, as she had done, and before Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, she detailed the harms of making abortion more accessible:
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