IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Anti-Corrie doctors condemn interference by half-educated males

Socialist Challenge No. 110, 23 August 1979 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 570 words

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end of the wedge'.

The group abortionists.

Although Professor Sir Professor of DOCTORS and gynaecologists all around the country have made their opposition to the Corrie abortion Bill clear that Doctors in Defence of the 1967 Abortion Act, representing more than half the professors of gynaecology in Brtain, described the Bill as 'the thin has correctly pointed done for out that the Bill, if passed into law, women back into the hands of the back street involved limit themselves to defence of the '67 Act, statements from some of them reveal a certain understanding of the need for a 'woman's right to choose':

Dugald Baird, Obstetrics and Gynaecology at a Scottish university, told the Scotsman that it was quite people these days that the choice and responsibility for abortion was the woman concerned.

Another Scottish professos, MacGillivray of Aberdeen University, said that abortions are really the genera welfare. women and the law has been working well for the past 12 years and I see no He added: 'Undoubtedly, if this becomes law, women will be driven into the hands of backstreet, criminal, septic abortionists.

The members of the group have their Members of Parliament urging them to vote against the Bill.

They mention suffering that will be caused to many and Rational Health the need for more early abortion and lan clinics, and point to the tendency of the Bill to confușe and delay leading to more rather than fewer late abortions Dugald Baird saying: 'I don't think this has a very good chance of becoming law because women much today than they have ever been. They will not stand for this interference in their lives by half-educated males.?

It's up to all of us, women, to make sure that this is the case.

the mental for the campaign.

the inadequate up to fundraising, contraception hospitals.

- nence ended up by more powerful The anti-Corrie just Corrie Bill, This has added an extra edge to the Hamlets Campaign Against Corrie, and among activities planned by the local CAC group is joining a picket of the AHA on 13 Septembe against cuts in the local NHS.

Hamlets Campaign Against Corrie was set up from a public meeting on 8 August called by the Trades Council and attended by nearly one hundred people. Last week the first campaign meeting attracted nearly forty people - including trade socialist feminists — prepared to work actively A number of subgroups were set organise activities such as publicity, petitioning and work in the trade unions and local The next meeting of the campaign will be in a month's time.

leaflet, Anti-Abortionists Tell Us Lies!, has been produced by the Campaign Against the Corrie Bill. It gives all the details to answer the horror stories about foetuses left to die in hospital drains.

leaflet, and stickers slogans, are available Campaign Against the 374 Grays Inn Rd, London WCIX 8BB.

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