Women's conference 'IF THE Labour Party is not convinced that abortion is a right, what have we been doing all these years? The next Labour government must make abortion legal.
This was the appeal of a pensioner at the annual women, which gave ovelWhelming backing to all emergency resolution sup porting the Facilities Bill ne is wareh comes ur in parliament on 1 July make NHS abor tion facilities mandatory.
It represents a historic point in the struggle to estabilsn in law practice a woman's right to choose, and a change in This Conference believes that a woman's right to control her own fertility is fundamental to the Labour Party's commitment to equality for Conference therefore demands that the next elec tion manifesto and any subsequent manifesto should incorporate this, and a future Labour Government should take action to change the law so that • Abortion on request is made freely available through the NHS and existing inequalities or provision are removed by statute.
• All private abortion clinics are incorporated into the NHS and all abortions performed tree or charge • Abortion daycare facilities are provided in all areas of the country.
• nere are increasea Tacities tor birtn control in the NHS with centres set up to provide counselling on all aspects of contraception, abortion and pregnancy.
• All forced sterilisation accompanying abortion or childbirth is banned.
• Medical practitioners whose conscience forbids them to perform terminations of pregnancy are legally bound to refer patients seeking abortion to channels wice a aboron car be one Lee Jeans women are marching from Greenock to Edinburgh see Scottish George Younger and then to rally commemorating the historic UCS work-in wedding! the strategy of the abortion Luveillal defending women's isting rights actively campaigning for free abortion on demand. Bro sar of the Facilies Jo Richardson says should have any illusions that this bil could become law at this time. It marks the beginning of the camconvince the Labour i Party and trade Secretary unions to ensure that the next Labour government is committed to implementing it.
Labour women demanded that them party support the decriminalisation of abortion as long as fifty needed mas ago. But masses of women 190s to the end th in the 1970s to detend the Abortion Act before this Occanic varry Doncy. The Labour Abortion Rights Campaign (LARC) was set up in 1977. It aims to comNOIL BLOC _P policy The LARC three point legislation plan covers making abortion facilities on the NHS; Jo Richardson MP speaking to NAC/LARC lobby of parliament on 24 June If the Labour Party is to be a party for working women it must show aouv • cereno ano extend the rights of women.
The abilty to control our fertility the key women being able to make real choices about their lives.
For further information about the LARC plan contact them c/o PC Box 110. London SE21 8ND 500 women march in London on 27 June for lesbian rights Dudley.
all termination within their area.
the previous vear Stan Orme Frank Dobson Hugh Brown Martin O'Neill John Tilley Reg Race Peter Shore paign.
Barbara Burnham, Protection of the Unborn Child What is the bill for? The purpose of the bill is to overcome the tremendous variation in provision of NHS facilities which means for example that 97 per cent of abortions done in the Devon area are done on the NHS compared to 6 per cent in What the bill says 1 That the Secretary of State should ensure that District Health Authorities provide facilities for 2 That to calculate the extent of the facilities required reference should be made to figures available relating to all terminations carried out on women ordinarily residing in that district in 3 That no payment will be required from any woman obtaining an abortion on the NHS.
Joan Maynard Alf Dubbs John Fraser Jo Richardson Stuart Holland Ernie Roberts Abortion clinics are getting like the gas chambers operated by the Nazis during the last war. Albert McQuarrie, MP for East Aberdeenshire Miss Richardson and her allies now want to make NHS gynaecologists ... carry out abortions as though it was some sort of pest control camChelmsford Society for the
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