Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega is a Mexican humanitarian who founded the Federación Mexicana de Asociaciones y Empresas Privadas (FEMAP), which supports a network of clinics, hospitals, and nursing schools in the North of Mexico, based in Ciudad Juárez.
[2] De la Vega began working with women on family planning after reading about a poor mother of nine who, when pregnant again, "tried to kill her fetus by stabbing herself in the stomach."
De la Vega visited her in prison and was shocked to find out that this woman did not know anything about family planning or birth control.
[1] In 1973, she began working with women in Juárez, and helped them gain access to family planning and a maternity clinic.
[6] When Juárez became the "murder capital of the world" during the Mexican Drug Wars, De la Vega continued visiting her hospital in the city several times a week.