The Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional (National Mexican Women's Commission, CFMN) was a Mexican-American organization dedicated to economically and politically empowering Chicana women in the United States. Creation CFMN was formed during the Mexican American National Issues Conference, in October 1970. With the help of leadership from Francisca Flores and Simmie Romero, a group of women spoke up about the issues pertaining to Chicanas because they felt as though their issues were not being prioritized in the conferences. The lack of prioritization of Chicana issues in the annual Mexican American National Issues Conferences were due to the fact that it was issues of women, not men, the group of women believed. Therefore, the group of women decided to create an organization to address their issues without having to deal with, "the male sexism in the Chicano Movement or the racial discrimination in the Women's Movement". History In 1972, CFMN created the Chicana Service Action Center in response to the need for training low-income, unskilled Chicana women. In 1973, CFMN had a conference in Goleta, California. Topics such as education, childcare, sex education, and family planning were discussed. At this conference, the first constitution was drafted. In the draft they decided on the following terms: "to direct efforts to organizing women to assure leadership positions within the Chicano movement and in community life, to disseminate news and information regarding the work and achievement of Mexican and Chicana women, to concern themselves in promoting programs which specifically lend themselves to help, assist, and promote solutions to female issues, to spell out issues to support and explore ways to establish relationships with other women's organization". During this year, CFMN created Centros de Niños, a bilingual and bicultural childcare geared towards helping working and poor women in school or training. In 1975, CFMN participated in the opposition of involuntary sterilization of Chicana women by filing a class action lawsuit, Madrigal V. Quilligan. However, they failed to stop the sterilization of Latina women but achieved to generate public outcry to the situation. The public outcry helped in creating bilingual consent forms and the enforcement of the 72-hour waiting period prior to performing operation. During this year, CFMN attended United Nations International Decade of the Woman's Year Conference in Mexico City. In 1977, CFMN attended the National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas. At the conference CFMN was recognized as "the leading Latina Organization in the United States".