Gonzales R. N., Betty

Betty Gonzales has spent most of her life working to expand reproductive choices as an activist for voluntary sterilization. Together with an organization now called EngenderHealth, she helped make social and surgical changes in the United States, and overseas. A registered nurse and working in public health, Gonzales became a spokesperson for the association, speaking at community meetings and professional conferences. She was also the guest on over one hundred radio and television programs, to discuss the choice of permanent birth control (vasectomy and tubal ligation). After ten years of vo...