"Life' in the labour movement | IMGpapers 1976

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tion group women on a recent Catholic church. chanted:

Labour rally the Night success. anyone who Initial adthe unborn.

43 Earlham society. * It emotively to foetuses as brothers and sisters' These arguments tality and demagogy however LO CHOOse. claim The notion mothers is and benefit HACKNEY principles and enormous hardThe National Women's WIll be the Block "LIFE' is a virulent anti-abor- SCULOTS whose support is mainly to be found in the Tue Nanonal rrontis te only to political party to adopt anti-abortion programme. now it is seeking support in the So tar it has not had much Life's glossy propaganda is too crude to convince many Labour Party activists. * i camus to be a trade union' acting in the interests of and * It says that the unborn are the most oppressed 'class' in refers have abortion as 'killing off the unborn', and sometimes refers 'our unborn pose as politics and class consciousness, but really depend on sentimen that YOU!

sending a while Life's extreme ideas do not win muct the initiative. support in une labour move ment, that is not to say that there as a cea understaneing orne importance of a woman's right should rimarily be wives med women Abortion.

represented? still prevalent, November, despitethe impact of theideas of London SW1. the women's liberation movethe large scale employment of women in all GIRLS Until women themselves have the right to decide whether or not to have a child, whether or continue pregnancy, their position in the workforce will remain at the mercy of the state and bosses.

It is to extend the fight for a and to counter the ottensive ideas o organisations like Life, that the National Abortion Campaign the Labour Abortion Rights Campaign have called the trade union conference on abortion on 25 November.

Various anti-abortion groups already declared their intention to bring coachloads of their supporters to London to of picket the conference.

We have to make sure that they have no chance of making a show of strength. Make sure delegate to the conference and is supporting Plans are being made for a counter-mobilisation of supporters of a woman's right to choose outside the conference. *Trade Union Conference on Will you Saturday on.

Caxton Hall, 374 Gray's Inn Rd, London WC1 (01-278 0153).