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* The DHSS has the go-ahead to impose quotas on 'foreign' women requiring abortions in this country. Full financial and medical records will now be kept on these women - unlike any other. 'foreign' patients requiring emergency operations in this country. Every year 2,000 women in Italy die as a result of laws introduced under Mussolini's fascist dictatorship denying women the right to abortion. Now the Labour Government is effectively condoning this death toll and yet again 1s refusing to make any real international commitments • A so-called "white list' of den of increasing cuts in social exliving standards. Attacks on abortion are part of the move to drive women back into the home. This also helps further to divide the working class, weakening their ability to fight back against the capitalist offensive.
Naturally Leo Abse and his ilk have been absolutely delighted by the Castle statement. Norman Fowler, Tory spokesman, said there was a strong feeling 'on both sides of the House that the Select Committee should continue with ship Party Conferences to support Freely available abortion on request on the NHS'. Every women's group, trade union branch, tenant's association, and Labour Party must now come out against the Government's restrictions and begin to organise the fight against the re-constitution of the Select Committee.
Local meetings where Labour MPs and trade unionists are invited to speak about how they plan to implement their policies will be organised up and down the country. The fight against attacks on abortion is part of the general fight against the attacks on the working class by the right-wing leaders of the Wilson Government. Where these so-called leaders of the working class refuse to take up the fight against the DHSS regulations and against the Select Committee, a struggle must be waged to remove them from their positions of leader
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