CAMPAIGNING for abortion rights in New Mexico.
FEMINISTS from Women's Centres across United States have formed the Abortion Rights Movement in defiance of attempts by National Organisation Women to compromise with anti-abortionists.
Without consulting stituent groups or testing the opinion of the members, NOW president Ellie Smeal called for public mccung anti-abortionists the and an end to confrontation' In a press statement on 22 the January, the anniversary of the for aegansauon or doorton, NOW said: *No-one con- Abortion is a choice of last resort, but it must nevertheless be a choice guaranteed to every S.W.
RIGHT TO woman: the victim of rape or between incest.
NOW contraceptives fail, *destructive ager for whom no-one cared enough to explain the facts of life, the woman whose physical or mental health cannot stand the strain, the woman who is found to be at risk with birth pro-abortion! defects..Abortion is an act of desperation The Feminist Health woman whose the teenRights Movement:
Women's Centre in California who cannot sent an open letter to women's for doctors groups arguing that this was not the view of the majority of NOW and state funded, advocating instead an Abortion abortion Many feminist activists view woman's life abortion as a legitimate method of birth control...we do believe that abortion is only for women who have been raped, or lor teenagers or for women withstand the campaign started a year ago by the anti-abortion movement.
In the last three years anti-abortionists have introduced a ban on the use of legal aid funds for any matter connected with They abortion, a conscience clause and nurses, an exemption clause for religious hospitals, even when they are and the withdrawal of public funds for any Rights.
except the is in danger.
Many states have introduced restrictive clauses.
ARM's aims include fighting for greater access to abortion, resisting restrictive legislation and demanding that public Women feminist women's health centres will be involved in activities on March, the International Day of Action on Abortion Rights WIl be joined by organisations like CARASĂ (Campaign for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilisation Abuse) and the North East for Reproductive Demonstrations are being organised in Boston, Hartford, New York, Buffalo, Chicago and California.
demonstration Park to Trafalgar Square on 31 March, starting on 1.30 Socialist Challenge: 15 March 1979 page 11