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After the Second World War, ALRA had become little more than lobbiers with their eyes fixed oere was no more talk of mass action or street campaigning. ALRA did play a role in fighting only Dora Russell of the association's early feminist founders lived to see.
For those early abortion campaigners, as for us now, the issue of women's right to control was a direct Her ey medical profession, the Church, and to the state. It was not simply a question of righting an women, an assaulll 'morality', and the liberation of sexual relations.
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sued openly in favour of prevailing isy and laboo. 'What is * asked. 'It is a sexual women should without punishthe pro-abortion movement in this country, and working class women that they organised, have much to teach us now. Obstinacy As the pro-abortion movement faces the possibility of serious reverse the obstinacy of campaigners. They faced social ostracism, loss of custody of their children, sackings, and the prospect of a long fight against not only the establishment but the labour movement itself. But they were determined to keep on fighting.
We have come a long way since then. have begun to win the fight in La sere ae ewer üst learn their lessons and insist that an issue for the whole working class, action is the only way to win.
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