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Prınted by tast tna Uttset(TU) Lta, London E2 Peter Huntingford under attack for defending women's rights productivity in rail and were sold out Gratifying though the response has been, it We were very pleased to get over £900 this If we're to be able to respond to the national military takeover in London Ni This week's donors are:
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Profesor Huntingford and another docare being the Director of Public Prosecuuons have refused to fill in the pecause utey new form. which does not allow for and taken into account in giyLu wcl dovrtis Under the 1967 Abortion Act, they argue, provision is made for nonmedical factors to be taken account in granting aPoLOs form only asks for medical SAFE, FREE MALCOLM X 'PROSECUTE and be damned'. These were the Peter Huntingford last week in defying the Department of Health and Social Security over the new abortion notificareasons to be entered. implying that other factors are not sufficient in law Professor Huntingford believes that the forms would deter doctors from performing abortions and would give anti-abortion Cull excuse for not providing the service. "
This could affect some 80 per cent of women seeking abortions on the NHS who do so on non-medical gronlas The right to choose whemer a we to bave SETSUBSCRIBEI With each 12 months inland subscription to REVOLUTION by Henri Weber (normal price £2.95) or AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF women's free and equal DarLC DaLUl suclely The social and personal ¡casus lor a woldr lak. ing the decision to have an huge avutun HaVe plications for her and must be taken into account The new forms were introduced last March by an obscure parliamentary procedure calicu d SaLuLorv lasu u This means that acil. bes, a surucert aileDe of MPs object to a proposal, no aiscussion lake. place . This particular one just slipped through.
Where Corrie, White and failed DCIVU] restrict the law by abortion bills, the DHSS have succeeded through the back door. Effectively, they have changed the grounds whereby abortion can be obtained.
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Please send me. shown that they are prepared to dety the new form. It is up to the labour movement as a wiloie ll defend them by fighting the statutory and eversing he decision to change the forms.
What you can do: Write to Dr G Vaughan the Minister of Health ••gOSIC the changes and supporting socia ground: for abortion )eman‹ that charges against the two doctors are dropped. Write to your MP and get your union to write io their sponsored MP aemanaing that s/he raise this issue in parliaanenu Organise local meetings to publicise what is hap pening. Get local health workers, and trade unions involved. The Labour Abortion Rights Campaign has produced the following model resolution which they will be taking to the Greater London Labour Women's Con ference on 29 January. Take it to your Labour Party ward trade union branch body deplores the threatened prosecution of DOCIOS who don t accen the DHSS's restriction of the ground. whereby woman may get an abortion under the : 1967 Abortion Act by the introduction of a new abortior notification form It notes that this form was introduced statutory instrument without proper COnuLu tion or parliamentary debate and belleve. this represents an attempt to undemocratically mine the terms and spirit of existing legislation.
calls the Parliamentary Laboul Party (or General Council of the urge the minister to dro all charges and to amend the abortion notification form so that doctors may once more be made aware of and take into account the fact that the 1967 Act allows for a woman's actual and reasonably foreseeable environment to be a factor when con sidering termination. Surface & Europe £17.00, Air Mail £24.00
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