IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Put doctors in front line

Socialist Challenge No. 73, 23 November 1978 · p. 14 of the scan · 274 words

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page 14 of the scan

THE problems National Abortion Campaign, your report explained (5 October), have much to do with the campaign's fight against MPs' attempts to bring in more restrictive legislation and the absence of such attempts at the present time.

I believe there is a form of action which can be organised on a local basis and capture particularly forceful way. It is this: picket GPs who refuse abortions, dramatising the protest by announcing through loudhailers precisely *-doctors said in the sanctity of their SULACLY In my view, even one or two of these local pickets would very bring a national response from the medical hierarchy COCIOE furious: their "private' relationship medical practice, and a means of hiding their frequently coercive and reactionary role.

Such pickets would be more than a "stunt". When women abortion it is their GP who has first refusal. These doctors should therefore be our front-line targets. SANDRA TARDOV (London N16)

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