Contract or conof the National The result has both a slow but sure offensive most revealing.
Take the Social Conhim, but Broad is trying to avoid handing Sham? Members wing outfit Truemid been ISSUE them The support for some of the candidates in the forthcoming elections for General Secret- rick ary of the Transport and General Workers Union has been front-runner Moss Evans, for instance. Not only is Jones beavering away for on 9 January 'Business News' section of the est. Sunday Times came out in his support. And guess who was A view out leaflets in his support at a recent Rover shop stewards meeting in Birming- ation for of the rightStranger still, however, has backing "Vote for Cousins' was the headline over a piece by PatHutber Telegraph of 23 January. Describing Cousins' attack on the union leaders for trying to take raniamen 'splendid stuff, Hutber concluded that, We shall watch his progress with much interеспова Dy HONE other than Free Nation, paper of the National Associ*Mr John cousins: A man to watch was the headline over their story. ree Nato commence approvingly that Cousins 'is regRED WEEKLY 27 January 1977 WILLIAM BENYON, Conservative MP for Buckingham, has introduced a private member's Bill which will have its second reading on 25 February. According to The Times report ol 2z December, unis baris expecieu to contain the restrictions recommended by the Select Committee.
These include a shortened time liTestacors on doctors. trols on referral agencies, parental involvement VOUHECE WORCH and a carte blanche for the police to Insoccemeacarrecords This new attack on the limited gains of the 1967 Act highlights once ter when attempting to win the fundamental right to control their legal representatives as chief arbiIn the nineteenth century formal during a period of liberal' reforms. The 1861 Offences Against the Person Act sounds like a law to protect, people from abuse or assault. Yet it made abortion a crime punishable by life imprisonment. A woman ceased being ner own po son, and for the duration of her pregnancy became the state's.
The question of control is basic to the abortion issue. allow all kinds of changes amendments snort of granting con trol. Even the 1967 Act, which gave Britain one of the most liberal laws Line backstreet burners.
Recently the abortion issue has surfaced in many countries. Women nave begun to organise movemiches to win the right to choose for themse ves Canada, Latin America, ALustralla, New were introduced throughout Western Europe.
are building campaigns to get rid of legal and medical restrictions.
Many of these campaigns have focussed on the pregnant Choose'. This slogan spells out the situation which Abortion is a right of women which has been usurped by the state. The slogan points towards the state as the The state wil original aggressor. The struggle to and win back for women the right to control their own fertility involves taking on the state, the Church and the legal and medical professions All these institutions have a vested interest in the maintenance of a system based on private property, a SYSICHE When female reproduction interests. — in the United States.
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