when the Statute of governthe timing of the trial Medicine, Madrid.
them actresses, weekend three hundred trial were They say: police baton Spanish in several six-year sentence. deputy, Carlota Bustelo, Sister ist former Socialist the Minister of Industry.
Sit-in protests have also been held in Barcelona, Bilbao, San Sebastian and many other cities.
On Sunday, police forcibly ejected 500 women from the College of About 1,300 women, many of writers, lawyers, doctors and politicians have signed a document confessing that they have had an abortion.
'It is obvious that justice is condemning women because they do not have the f250 which it costs to go to England for an abortion.' Demonstrations will take place Euskadi towns Another trial, this time of a woman accused of having an abortion. She is Conceiçao Massano, who became pregnant in 1974 when she was a studen nurse in Porte Allegro, in Portugal. Her 'mistake' was to record in her diary that she went to Lisbon for an abortion. She is liable to between two and eight years' imprisonment.
and a friend who gave the address of an abortionist. They each face a will not go unmarked. A national demonstration is to take place in Lisbon, and a petition signed by 17,000 women will be handed in to the prime minister, who is a woman.
Behind these activities is the National Campaign for Contraception in Portugal, which earlier this year successfully campaigned for the acquittal of Marie Antonia Palla, a journalist taken to court for making a film about abortion. ICASC helped to organise the international protest at Palla's trial. Two thousand women abortions in Portugal — and that's just the official figure.
Carnide, 1500 Lisboa, Portugal. tomorrow, and on the weekend a campaign of leafleting and street mecungs will culminate in occupation of Bilbao's town hall.
Women's organisations Buskadi are raising which include: the removal of abortion from the penal code; an immediate amnesty for the women on trial and for all those who have been imprisoned for abortions;
setting up of municipal centres for contraception:
The battle is being supported by the International Contraception Abortion Sterilisation Cam(ICASC). Information Isabel Ochoa, Salazar 12, 1°dcha, Bilbao, Spain.
Abortion and • die from illegal Information from: CNAC, Rua Guiomar Torresao, Lote 37 3°dto,
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..and Portugal Also on trial is her husband who provided the money for the abortion, The trial, to be held on 29 October, has been dragging on for five years. It