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11-1 outside centre, pregnancies. WILLIAM Benyon has been up to some very Commons' standing committee discussing John Corrie's Under the pressure of their advisers - the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, and Life - the 12 anti-abortion MPs on the committee of 17 have decided not to alter the time-limit of 20 weeks proposed by But a new clause has been added by William Benyon which will allow abortion beyond this limit in order to preserve the woman's life; to permanent injury physical or mental health; or to terminate pregnancies when tests have proved that the emergency procedure for an abortion when a woman's life is in danger requires mean that, when speed is of the essence, (wo signatures will haye to be obtained.
Benyon was also responsible for bringing back the original working of the 1967 Act to allow for abortions whenever it would be less risky than childbirth, but he added the word *substantially greater risk'.
Now Michael Ankram and James Dunn have added the word "serious' to this clause so that it will now only be possible for women to have abortions if a pregnancy physical health or a substantially greater risk in "substantially', will make it far easier for the powerful anti-abortion lobby to take doctors to court for allowing women to terminate their Two further amendments make the aims of her for social the majority of this committee crystal clear. Benyon persuaded the committee to allow a statutory instrument to lower the time limit. By delegating authority to the Secretary of State Services, the time-limit could be reduced without even a parliamentary vote.
MPs on the standing committee are worried about the 'conscience' Revolution supporters and other child. But they have no 'conscience' about the number of women who will die through unsafe backstreet abortions because of their arrogant bigotry.
The standing committee has also decided to recommend to doctors that the method of abortion that avoids killing foetus before unless, it would cause a 'substantially greater risk to a woman's life'. opposed to a great risk of the woman's life being in danger — even if an abortion is taking place — the foetus comes first!
place in February.
Campaign is calling for a mass Tuesday 5 February, backed by the South-east Region of the TUC. On the Friday there will be an assembly outside the House of Commons to express the feelings of women about this Bill.
month of January anti-abortion fanatics committee and their friends in Parliament do not easily forget.
OVER 200 people marched through Oxford against the Corrie Bill on ! December. emphasis had been on winning the support of young people in particular and the march was overwhelmingly composed of University and students, school students and young workers the National Abortion Campaign, ended with a rally outside Hertford College workplace of John Patten local Tory Patten is a reactionary Catholic who supports the Corrie Bill • should use s the termination takes place Presumably if there is only a small as The third reading of the Corrie Bill will take The National Abortion • lobby on Pro-abortion campaigners should make the La month that the the standing The The march, organised by the local branch of MP sisters who use these bullying tactics was challenged. Everyone should be allowed to put forward their views at women's meetings. Magazine Despite all the hullabaloo we decided to launch a young women's magazine. Instead of giving young women tips on what to wear we'd discuss how to organise. Rather than having a problem page we would have a page where we could talk about the common features of the oppression of thought that national meetings were useful and that we organise much larger conference at a summer school.
Women interested in setting up the magazine are invited to a meeting on 8 January at Spare Rib, 27 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1.
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