Betty Mary Smith Goetting, El Paso, TX
Betty Mary Smith Goetting, El Paso, TX

Betty Mary Smith Goetting, El Paso, TX

Betty Mary Goetting, (1897-1980), was an early women's rights advocate in El Paso who, while doing volunteer work among El Paso's poor during the depression, became convinced that the misery of poverty was linked to family size. In 1937 she and other courageous women and men fought ridicule and boycott threats to found the city's first birth control clinic.

Area: Central / El Paso High

Source: Eva Ross

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

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One of the original founders of El Paso Planned Parenthood in 1937, she was elected national director of Planned Parenthood federation of America in 1951. She had been a resident of the city for 75 years at the time of her death in 1980.

March is Women's History Month annually in USA. Archival records of Planned Parenthood are in UTEP Library Special Collections.

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