IMG, 25p THIS PAMPHLET outlines clearly why the struggle for free abortion on demand, an essential right if womer are to have control over their bodies, is an integral part of the fight for the working class to have control over their lives.
It does so by setting the struggle for women's abortion rights in an historical, struggle Colleal. The identifying how control of their own fertility has been taken away from women, and what has happened in Britain show how in capitalist society the freedom of women to control their own fertility is determined by interests of the ruing example: 'US aid to Bolivia promised in return for population control,' and the 1967 Abortion Act was introduced in Britain '... when the medical DIOJESSIOI beginning to be concerned about the effects that thalidomide was having:
Although reference to the Corrie Bill is made only in passing, there is a yery practical section dealing with and class sections For how ATIONA MARXIST GROUP we should fight for women's abortion rights emphasising the need work together on specific demands and in specific areas..' with in the struggle for abortion rights but who may not call themselves feminists or socialists."
Abortion, Liberation and Revolution is useful in that it gives a broad overview of the issues involved in the fight for abortion rights. However, in dealing with such a wide range of issues in a brief pamphlet there is little developed argument, and clarity and brevity are sometimes achieved at the expense of glossing over important details.
One of the sixteen pages is taken up almost entirely with a full page picture of Marie Stopes, under which is written, 'In the early 20th century the work of Marie Stopes began to make safe and reliable contraceptives available to working class women.' This of a woman who justifies her views about contraception saying, society allows the diseased, racially negligent, the thriftless, careless, the feeble-minded, the very lowest and worst members of the community to produce innumerable tens of thousands of stunted, warped and inferior infants.' ANTOINETTE SATON