Glorification
"motherhood', coupled with the absence of freely available contraception and abortion facilities, the lack of adequate maternity The glorification of For women solution to the crisis ose whole.
Any Labour MP or Cabinet Minister who stands in the way of the campaign for the right to choose should be removed. In every area we should argue for kicking them out and replacing them with Labour MPs who are limited. prepared to fight for a pro-abortion position. The issue is simple. Either the Labour Party takes the side of women or it supports the The anti-abortion measures of the Government can be defeated. But this can only be done by extending the campaign already developed by the women's movement into the whole of the workers movement. Such a campaign will not stop merely at defeating the present measures. It must go forward to win the struggle for free contraception and abortion on demand on the NHS. And in doing so it will win hundreds of thousands to the fight for a socialist
Signatures
The Radical Party has collected 700,000 signatures in a campaign for a referendum on the repeal of the Fascist abortion laws. However, none of the parliamentary parties - except the Socialist Party - want to see it take place. So instead they have set up a commis sion in the Italian Parliament to bring forward new proposals regulating the right to abortion. The commission is expected to present its findings in the next few days.
The various political parties have all pro duced proposals on abortion, all of which
october 1975 Committee of the National Abortion Campaign. Interview with LINDA SMITH, IMG member of the Steering