NHS Cuts Ine reason tor inis paralysis, a time when the anti-abortionists were stepoing up ineir pressure, Is due to the inability of certain left grasp the dynamic of the present situation.
For many months now, attempted to turn NAC from a mass campaign over women's rights - the right to choose - into one opposina the 'cuts' in the NHS. As early as last June, Berry Beaumont (leading IMG spokesperson in NAC) was such campaigns (as MCAPP) can supporters ot tree abortion on demand have a real prospect of success!. No-one cuts in abortion facilities on the NHS is important. What the IMG cannot However is that there is no much point campaigning against cuts in the NHS to achieve better abortion facilities if women are not allowed Lo use inen because or lecal restrictions. It is the struggle to win anv restrictive laws first of al! inal is ine main task tacing NAW al It is the IMG's inability to grasp this, attempting to turn , NAC into a subsidiary of MCAPP, Dinar nas ed to NAC's paralysis over the past 6 months. Once the focal point of the campaign becomes a struggle against the cuts, then mobilising mass action against the government around the the IMG has Q. Are still a threat?
Well, the attempt of the 1967 Act.
Is imprementing.
eroded. reconvened.
abortion restrictions the most immediate danger is ooviously ine seleci committee. The Select Committee was set uf to tighten up the labuses! swas net and it has already come out with restricive proposals ine government This means women's abortion rignis nave already been If the Select Committee is ineretore, witnin the same terms of reference, it is bound to come us wiin even more resiricive proposals. Certainly, the Committee itself has made it clear that it wishes to continue studying the White Bill so that it can 'report without delay'.
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erate any restrictions to our abortion rights"