Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action)1980Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action) Vol. 3, No. 3, April 1980ANTI-ABERTION FOR A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE
Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action) Vol. 3, No. 3, April 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 165 words
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•= backstreets seems to nave • -emoved.
- iS ACTION - = reason for this victory is not ...as the media puts it, the 'fil• ¡tering' tactics in Parliament •eading pro-abortion MPs such _: Renee Short or Jo Richardson.
No doubt their strong opposition : the Bill in the House - and their aruggle to win vacillating Labour MPs to grasp its full dangers - did -lay a vital role in blocking this attempt to turn back the clock on zomens' rights.
When Corrie's anti-abortion Bill was the first time the organised labour movement had actually turned its paper pledges into real support for womens' rights.
It was the mass action pioneered by CAC* - both nationally and locally - that drove home to many MPs, particularly on the Labour side, the wide hostility to Corrie's attempt to erode the 1967 Abortion Act.
The extent of this hostility could be seen during the second & third late lamented Corrie Bill. It is a