Campaign LOOK at the photographs illustrated this page. The HILLEC identical. Only the languages used in the captions different. Dutch, the other Japanese.
The pictures are taken identical leaflets circulating in the two connutes — iwo countries walch are thousands of miles apart, which have entirely different cultures. What is the connection?
And the between Margaret Thatcher, ADSC, 21101 Ireland Loyalist leader Ian Paisley?
The answer to both questions is the same. These two countries many others are Lunary denying women the right to control their own bodies. And Abortion: Liberation and Revolution pamphlet International Marxist Group.
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connection attacking 'the Labour abortion': through like North COULLI Y Protection and groups such of an aimed at Human ponticians and parties the intervention Church in when in most cases Tories.
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And what other from the and the ideological propaganda? the Avail- 'experts" WilO founding Central to this conspiracy is the Since the early 1970s the Vatican has carried out a full scale, co-ordinated, international SPUC Directives are sent through papal nuncios who act as channels of communication between these the Vatican, the bishops conterences or callist in each country, and the organisations The Church operates its campaign in three ways: direct propaganda, for example the Pope's recent speeche:
abomination of groups in this the Society for the the Unborn unle (SPUC) and 'Life', and international as the Federation of Doctors who Respect Life'; and finally through support for right-wing anti-abortion An instance of this third tactic was of ING Catholic Britain's May general it attempted to win votes for anti-abortion candidates their leaflets are circulated through Catholic organisations. An example is Life or Death', from which the pictures on this page La million copies of this with its gory pictures and were given out in Scotland during the last election. The available in Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian institutions have establishments in all these countries.
organisation apart Catholic Church has the funding, the uniformity of approach, commitment necessary to sponsor such world-wide trave attacking a woman's right to choose.
foundan peresident of SPUC. sir president of SPUC. .. William is a member of the papacy's Pontifical Academy of Scientists.
In Britain, where Catholics are in a minority, the Church works through and Life, the latter having specifically Catholic position on abortion. It is common for Catholic congregations and lay groups to join organisations en masse, Dust. demonstrations, and to provide the main speakers.
VOST money for activities is either collected at chapel gates or donated by Catholic Meeting places and free publicity in the Catholic press are also provided. Invention A specific example is the role the Catholic Church has played in campaign for the Cardinal Gordon Grey, leader of the Church in Scotland, organised an open letter to Scottish MPs in support Priests like Father Hugh OT One Byron at Wisbech Catholic Church asked their congregations to write to MPs in support of legislation.
The same advice was offered by hospital chaplains, and recently SPUC announced it was setting up a network of hospital chaplains to receive 'complaints' from doctors and nurses about abortion cases. move coincided with a number abortion 'horror stories' appearing in the popular press around the time of the second reading of the Corrie Bill.
These horror stories have often. been pure invention. For example, the case of Zabudah Ahmed which was reported' in the press this January Zabudah had started to bleed after 29 weeks of pregnancy. If she had not had a caesarian operation she would probably Have died. She and her husband agreed to the operation and both her and the baby's lives saved.
But when the story appeared in the press it was portrayed as a abortion', live baby born' horror story. Perfect propaganda for those who said that Corrie's Bill was necessary to 'amend the abuses.
The Bill itself was drafted by George Crozier, a member of the Labour Party and a Catholic lawyer.
Crozier is also vice-chairperson of the Scottish Lay Apostolate Council, and such 15 deeply structures of the Catholic Church. Recently he sent a letter to all Labour MPs on organisations such as the Guild to Catholic Doctors, the Knights of St Columba, the Welfare Commission, these Parents and Electors Life and SPUC lay The Catholic lobby has never had much trouble influencing Party. Anti-abortionism into Conservative philosophy.
MP Michael Ancram, alias Michael Kerr, Earl of Ancram and heir to the Marquess of Lothian, the second reading of the Corrie Bill the that its opponents were 'many strange Bill. bedfellows... practitioners, purveyors of contraceptives and humanists'. In the United States, anti-abortion is equally part of the conservative caucus which opposes sex education, the bussing of black children and a graduated income tax.
But what about This of night for a torchlight vigil.
Ron Brown, were "late shock battered involved in the Tone-wille behalf of all till Catholic section the Catholic Association, the Tory tits neatly Tory argued during idea that believe that choice concerned.
the masses of Battered woman trial review The campaign to free June Greig - the battered woman from Edinburgh jailed for six years for killing her violent husband. victory on 27 September when three appeal judges decided that the evidence from the trial should be reviewed.
Donald MacAuley QC, acting for June, submitted that the trial judge, Lord Dunpark, had misdirected the jury by withdrawing the plea of self-defence from their consideration.
Many friends and relatives assembled outside the court to demand June's release. In defiance of the weather 50 women had camped out all Labour MP for Edinburgh, Leigh, Nationwide TV programme that "justice had not been done' and pointed to the crying need for a Domestic Violence Act in Scotland.
Extensive support for June's case has come from trade unions, women's groups and individual women. The women's conference of the Scottish TUC is discussing a resolution calling for June's release in November. She has been in prison for over seven months and will now have to wait another three to five weeks before the appeal is heard.
Women obviously feel strongly about this issue and identify with June. Donations have even been received from abroad. Here in Scotland we are determined that the delay will not defuse the campaign to ensure that June Greig walks out of the court a free woman. ordinary people who are constantly well-funded abortion propaganda? In a recent anti-abortionist Kenny maintained that "the section of the population most in favour 1S upper class men; the of the population most opposed is working class women' Not one shred of evidence was produced in support of this 'fact' And if it is only upper class men who are in favour of abortion, then there must be an awtul lo ot them National Opinion Poll published in cent of those questioned supported the March this year showed that 55 legally available for all who want it'.
But if Kenny and the rest of the anti-abortion lie machine really do working class women oppose abortion, then they should have no obiection to leaving ine to the individual woman Yet that. simple demo cratic right is what these people have i spent billions of pounds opposing:
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