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No woman likes the abortion, particularly one late on in pregnancy. Thre later per abortions scared to reyeal that they are pregnant or older vomes who associate missed periods with the These women are unlikely to accept their fate Unwanted pregnancies night mare not only for the mother but also for the child when it is born. Women will turn to the backstreet butchers rather than face the total disruption of their lives.
As Jo Richardson explained in the House of Commons on 15 February, the real time limit will not be 24 weeks. 22-week or 20-week limit in practice. So why have Labour MPs like Stan Orme colluded with Liberals like David Steel and Tories like Gerald Vaughan and accepted the view that abortion should be restricted té 24 weeks?
Conceded They conceded the argument of the anti-abortionists that abortion foetus is xiable, capable of surviving outside the vorab; that women have so absolate raht to lestroy a foetus after this time.
have been used to stop women controlling their pira bodies. But women are human beings, not simply wombs that produce babies. The life of • foetus is a potential life. The life of the voian is one that exists in the lime limit becomes law idea of having an cent of women who do have to ,100 can become B Doctors will work to a Orme?
have done so because they have shoult not be allowed If the ars moral arguments ilke these real world. work in the job she ooses, live with whom ste choo bortion debate.
And it's beceuse the oppose the idea that women shoald bare th own identity that they only see womed as bab producers and not as people. They reject th idea that women should bave a choice abou hoi they live their lives.
Facilities Anti-abortionists, like SPUC, have nothing to say about nursery facilities, nothing to say about educational and job opportunities for women. They have nothing to say about how to free women from oppression in our society. Their main concern is to reinforce women's oppression, to relaforce domestic drudgery and. keep women in the home.
Once you defend any time limit on abortion abor fonts. te Poetal servival is accepted as the cnienon 10r deciding abortions, then what happens when it becomes possible for a ten week foetus to survive in a test tube? Is a ten week limit then necessary, Mr Pro-abortion campaigners should stand up to the compulsory whether they come from SPUC, the Tories or Labour MPs. You can only concede to the arguments of the anti-abortionists if you view women as the 'irresponsible sex', incapable of making decisions about incapable of deciding themselves when they should terminal, a preguancy.
But when y omen are care for others, to bé good wives and mothers, and above all to value children, it is hardly likely that they are going to make decisions like this lightheartedly. Men have never had to be responsible about their sexual activity. should Parliament be allowed to apply double set by the the upper imit motherhood arguments their owa. lives, taught from birth to A dream image of women not so far from many a modern man's heart?
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