is trying to take away many of the which women in country have made the last ten years.
Unemployment
soaring; nurseries hospitals alc being and women are expected to bear the brunt. The constant threat to abortion rights is a way of ensuring that women are tied to the little about wnen, and how many children they tend with, •O WIV , and with the possibility with all this to conanotlicr resuacuve Dıll ovemnDer. are women demanding a law on abortion to allow the right to urestricted Is it demanding jam on the bread while the bread is being stolen? Ruin Un the contrary: it's not a luxury to call for improved laws -it's a necessity the table printed the 1967 Abortion Daze slows.
Act is going to rack and ruin. cuts in the NHS mean tha mised planning cunes Icsincica. waltng ana arow ane ne exstng abortion services practically unable to cope tors continue to refuse to perform orereanve staring is provaded. abortions, and no choice women prepared to will hey have achieved a lot in the last uclauc Through the victorious campaign against John Corrie's anti-abortion bill women up and made their Large of settilis Huelllcal HaVe choice? ackiuwicase mat Ine right control bodies and lives. organising within women's sub. committees, wulel s women's caucuses, and so on.
In the Labour debates democracy raise the who e issue of accountability on this MPs. For Abortion ,The Labour Abortion Paign have been abour rally to throw salllt 'tree vote' in parliament on abortion ISTS Those Labour already who voted for the Corrie be challenged in their constiDoc.
Luciicica In the Labour Partv na. tunaly SMOUlO according policy of women's all this, Year stood voices heard.
laDour been forced to women have Women sections, Party the «bordon The should be a pledge in the Labour manifesto to turn thi:
Natior law CamureIne LIC Positive legislation describes out ine all kinds of laws which pr ove wc s aortor Labour MPS bill vampaign s ousnin oint plan which will be put for and Labour abortion *For derımınall party tion is still illegal in Britain unless choice it is carried out as specified in the Table: Abortions Since 1968 Number 22,332 49,829 75,962 94,570 108,565 110,56{ 108.441 100.444 102,677. 112,055 1979 (provisional) 119,028 NHS. There 1967 Act.
ovucy unto to enact positive legisla- mandatory Authorities positive right to choose would im TenLS ADOTUON for a three- other proposals Parlamentar branches: short IsaLul. door Chalzes Proportion done in N.H.S. Hospitals (%)
open to women groups, 50. 51.2 groups, 48.0 WC 49.6 gOl CO 46.1 *For legislation to make NHS kind of bill provision ol aborton tacihties on Health ward.
*For a bill giving a woman a could involve a proposal for a bill un menstrual extracton up to si› weeks after conception, as well as ference taking end end in temselves; the kind activities pising anu 1012 term araneyed beetryg the mass be necessary will only people to actively support them. that legislation.
.the NAC women's forum and the Labour movement conference on positive legislation organised by NAC and LÄRC for 14 March are so important.
The women's forum will be from women' student schools, and onto discuss commusl nunlor a women's choose', to prepare the ground for a campaign the stress on a woman's choice and a woman's control.
The labour movement conference will discuss the details of what should be put forsoSud be burlt hise nin local built In local umons ana Labour barties It is also worth preparing a resolution for next year's Labour P up the call for an lice va ore mcasures outlned ir HAC s mee Dol nar Ever since the 1967 Act was passed women have been forced the gains Iow Is ine lime women to choose whether or not unev wish their pregnancies terminated.
A STEP forward in the campaign for positive legislation and outpatient abortion cinics wil take place in : Notungham • OVE ‹ yo vemuer. An eaucanona con verence bein! organised by Leicester, Nottingham, and Shef field Nationa Abortion Campaigning in the Trent Region. paigr groups discus. Cull The conference will be an op portunity for people who suppor a woman's right to choose to find The conference cumbusen will provide in formation useful for people who want to take up the campaign for abortion rights their ,Labour Party branches womens groups, colleges or schools Sponsorship has already beer obtained several laboui movemeni bodies, including Not Councils and Region 5 of the LUNO Positive will !. be discussed in the plenaries and in a workshop at the conference.
apert oD sussurters hrel neron although porters trom elsewhere welcome. Registration will be sent ou advance) cost £1.50 (unwaged 75p). Send cheucal pusl oruers DavaDe Nottingham NAC, to Ms B Alexander, Templeoak Drive, Wollaton, Nottingham
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