'IF YOU happen to be a spinster in your mid-fifties, suffer terminal disease and are the victim of multiple rape, and have been exposed to German measles, then you may just have a chance to obtain abortion if Tory MP John Corrie's anti-abortion Bill becomes law.' That's how Mel Keed from the white-collar union ASTMS described the Bill when she spoke at a packed protest meeting in Central Westminster, Friday Common's debate second reading was taking place.
Despite sweltering several hundreds of us squeezed into the hall to express our anger at yet another attempt to curtan women's right to abortion. hundred were turned away when not another inch of floor space could be found.
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