Their bodies, themselves- the struggle of Latin American women

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By the Latin American Women's Group LATIN American women have never had the chance to control their own fertility. When there are 'over-population' problems, population control agencies and repressive governforce them sterilised or use long-term and often dangerous CCOLYCS.

In the case of Puerto Rico, for example, contraceptives are mostly unobtainable or very expensive, but sterilisation is Socialist Challenge 15 February 1979) page 10 free and doctors are reimbursed USS50 for each operation. per cent of WOLICH child-bearing age have sterilised.

Since the 1973 coup Chile has fertility control aiming reduce the numbers of poor and be *League of Responsible Parenthood' post-abortion and postnatal sterilisations have been carea our on poor with the aid of experts from the 40 percent of the total health A LATIN American shanty town: women's fertility is under state control budget. is spent planning. To get any maternal of or child health care, Chilean been women In Bolivia, repressive population, there to sterilisation and mass family planning, especially among the the poorer indians, because international Aid conditional population women Alternatively, | encouraging on family and extend its brazu, tor example accept these planning and despite its low still contraception is illegal.

grants are active control back.

PrOIn Colombia, countries government women to have women will dangerous tions for the first time.

Abortion speakers Latin Group, Shouldham W1.

meetings leading abortion and planned for that day.

THE children in order to strengthen Conference:

there is little state control of family facilities are difficult to obtain. In Uruguay In all cases it is never the woman who has control. But in the face of opposition from the Church, the right and some of the left, women are fighting Mexico and Costa Rica, they are campaigning for the legalisation of abortion so that thousands of be spared back-street aborIn Venezuela and Peru the issues of abortion and contra ception are being raised openly Anti-Apartheid Move. has named March month of action on Zimbabwe The events planned include:

*3 March, Zimbabwe Action *17 March, Zimbabwe Day public meeting, organised by ZAPU, one of the Patriotic PronE orgamsauons, March, Zimbabwe Fundraising Day.

The 3 March conference is especially important as a forum for debaung me rast-moving political situation in Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe conference