Executive Director Silvia Henriquez is quoted in this Economist article about the rise in teen pregnancy rates.
Silvia Henriquez, the executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, reckons that access is the problem. Latina teenagers are less likely to have health-care coverage for contraceptives, and are more likely to lack transport to the free clinics in their cities.
Editor's Note: Sotomayor’s ethnicity does not determine her position on Roe v. Wade, writes Silvia Henriquez, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health.
There are many assumptions on how Latinos feel about abortion, said Silvia Henriquez, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. Polls by her group reveal more tolerance toward it.
“It’s very much ‘Maybe I wouldn’t make that decision myself, but it’s not my place to interfere in someone else’s decision’,” said Henriquez.
