The coalition brought together five existing Mexican feminist groups, and two publications, including the recently founded fem.
[1] The group's priority was decriminalizing abortion in Mexico, articulating an ideal of 'voluntary motherhood' (maternidad voluntaria).
They presented the bill to the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) in December 1977, demonstrating outside until they were allowed in for an audience with a legislator from the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
In 1981 it worked with the Mexican Communist Party to draft another bill to decriminalize abortion,.
After this also failed to pass into law, the coalition lost momentum and dissolved.