JOHN Corrie's proposals childbirth will affect women beyond Britain's shores. Each year thousands of women come to Britain for an abortion, for the simple reason that the laws on abortion and contraception in their own country are even more restrictive than they are here.
Throughout West Europe, the Church, the state, and much of the medical profession delight in women remaining prisoners of childbirth and for enforced the family. It's not simply that these institutions are male dominated. Capitalism needs the family to churn out workers for the production lines. It's crude but effective.
limitations, has established Britain as one of the West Europe's most liberal countries when 11 comes to statutory pregnancy.
That's why women come to Britain for a safe and legal abortion from virtually every country in West Europe. In 1977, the latest year for which figures are available, 10,171 women came from in spite of its reigns. Spain ; 7,849 from Italy; 4,201 from France; 2,183 from the south of Ireland; 1,732 from West Germany; and 1,255 from the north of Ireland. the total figure was 35,000 women.
Corrie's Bill could effectively close charities such as the British Pregnancy Advisory Service - the organisations that many foreign as well as • British women turn to for an abortion. Here's what that would mean for women in just two countries where the barbarism of the Papacy