Cristina Villareal is a psychologist and founder of Oriéntame, the first organization in Colombia to provide legal abortion and reproductive rights counseling in the country. She has also created several other organizations in favor of this cause, such as CLACAI, the Latin American Consortium against unsafe abortion. She was a member of the boards of directors of the NAF and the Guttmacher Institute, the Foundation for the Right to Die with Dignity, and the advisory committee of Global Doctors for Choice in Latin America.

Together with physician Ana Cristina González, Villareal is a founder of the Causa Justa Movement, a movement in favor of the decriminalization of abortion, which found its first achievement in 2006, when the Constitutional Court enabled three situations for the practice of legal abortion: health grounds, sexual violence grounds, and fetal malformation grounds, as explained by the organization Oriéntame.

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