MICHAEL FOOT clarmed he supported the 1967 Abortion Act. However, he did not think that a woman's right to choose mattered as much as having a united government. He explained: 'If the press cauent any nint or aitrerence bet ween Barbara Castle and myself they woulo seize on it - so uniess Barbara signs | cannot sign:
In the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall, Mr and Mrs Foot threw a lavish reception on 5 January to celebrate the introduction of "Equal Pay'.
They even sent an invitation to Or Berry Beaumont and 'one friend'. Her friend, Bob Penninaton, was announced as a member of the IMG to the embarrassment of Mr Foot.
When Pennington, sporting a 'Right To Work' badge, commented that 'you can't be too keen on that as you are busy keeping over one and a quarter muton peopie unempoyeo. roo! quickly disentangled himself from his polite handshake. One flunkev muttered "how impolite these people are'!
Foot was even more taken 303ci when Peonington asked: "Who is paying for this lot?" "This lot" was tables loaded with campari, gin, rum, whisky, dubonnet, wine, and the odd delicacy like smoked salmon sanowicnes. Ail ne doupt Dart or tne regular oier ottne unempioved.
Berry went hunting signatures for the National Abortion Campaign demonstration. But the ladies in their sequined evenine oresses ano the centemen in their smart suits were not only not too keen, they were even rather hostile.
The portraits of Charles I and Il gazed down on the approach to the hall. Neither would have disapproved of the penaviour or cabours oureaucrats By the way, despite all the celebrations about equal pay, none of the waitresses had been told how much they VEC SeCET91 abortion rights? Or will they ial" life being interrupted. She moaned: 'Oh, do not ask me to do that. I am just enjoying my evening off!' doing at a reception allegedly celebrating a 'victory' for women's rights no-one will ever know - was blunt and to the point. He called berry a very wicked person. and said 'you must be joking' when asked to sponsor the National Abortion Campaign demonstration.
•In DaruC As socansts. we oppose mne select on women's rights. Abuses in the 1967 come out against SACE solved by means of Select Committecs. They will be solved through the actions of the working class around such demands - have in as the nationalisation of all private clinics, for a National Health Service in the interests of the working class, and for "A Woman's Right to Choose/Free Abortion on Demand".
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