all those session of Parliament.
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right to abortion Challenge defended against govermen. more government, law: IT IS now beyond a doubt that Tory MP John Corrie will be seeking to get a restrictive abortion Bill through this doing will not displease Margaret Thatcher and the Тогу press into spasms of baying delight.
It is the kind of measure that will reassure traditional Tory voters, who may not understand the niceties of economic policy, but are quite certain what they think about hanging, public Corrie's proposed Bill, the details of which are unlikely to be available will include a reduction in the time limit for legal almost certainly include a number of other restrictive status of agencies like the British hundreds of women who cannot get It could try to include an element right', perhaps not so but some It may try to limit, or more closely abortion, through tightening up on the » clause, which allows Whatever the Bill does, it will be a fundamental attack on the limited embodied in the 1967 Act, which was fought for by thousands of women, and has been attempts restriction included in three Private Members's Bills under the Labour Unlike the Bills under the Labour Corrie's has exceedingly good chance of becoming CLOSED free MPs.
Campaign motion union, read "That NALGO adopts & neutral attitude on the abortion issue and withdraws its support from the National Abortion Campaign'.
The motion was not taken, but the attitude it expressed is common in the trade union movement — abortion is a question of conscience, not of right. Necessary It is this attitude which has meant that at every Labour Party conference where it has come up, the block votes of trade unions have maintained the vote on abortion for Labour Steps have been made to reverse this situation. The National Abortion and Abortion Rights Campaign joint trade union conference attracted delegates from a The Women's TUC in 1978 passed promising demonstration if there was any effort to restrict the 1967 Abortion Act. This gives us something to build on.
But perhaps now is not only a necessary, but also a good time, to take forward this fight into the trade from Tory MPs technology is not a problem as married women will have to be persuaded not to work — take together with the Abortion Bill reveal clearly what is really at the heart of the Conscience It is not a question of conscience for the Tory government, it is stage one of a process of pushing women out of the workforce, and fixing them "belong' - at home bringing up children.
We must use the opportunity to • is a right that won, which in the words of the Dal v Mirror. has 'freed women — especially working class women crude • butchery of the back-street abortionist' and which them step further being able to •participate equally in all aspects of social life.
It has begun to give women the possibility of controlling their own have to argue that the anti-abortionists divide the working * class, they succeed in pitting women against men in the fight for jobs, pas fight to defend abortion rights is the first step in the fight to defend all our rights.