stage. leading members of NAC, Dr Berry Beaumont, Gill Butler and Rose Knight, wrote:
•We do not accept an upper time Limit, because we believe that women are capable and responsible cough to decide whetber or not to terminate WEEDECIS REWARENE *To set an upper time limit is to say to the pregnant women, "Yes, we believe in your right make decisions vour body and your ble for th ust 12 or 24 or 28 wecks o your pregnancy, then it must be someone eise's decisson"... the someone cise being a doctor or some other expert living our We want the state to provide abortion facilities, we do not want it to tell us when we can choose to have a late abortion, but we must realise that we have no right to generalise from such personal feelings and present other women from choosing termination ar any stage?
want carly, abortions which will cradicate the need for late ones, but we eyes need for late abortions even under these dEmaran decision on thie Barnsley case paves the way for further attacks rights under the Tories, in the same way that the Concordat lays the basis for attacks on trade union rights.
The danger is doubled if the Tories feel that they have to reactionary base by throwing concessions capital punishment, race The are pressure on them to do so is STAC 30.000 strong demonstration in Londuring the THE restrictions on utortion rigete results are evident from the situation ETER SHE BE ECHINI All abortion legat there and one result is that in the last ten years 12,694 residents from the South of Ireland hase bad abortions in Britain.
More disturbing are the figures for Infunticide, In th ast 94 years the South o has averaged an infanticide rate 73 per cent higher than England and Wales.
There is even more disparity WERE contes the abandonment of chlldren under two years of age.
During the past 75 years the South of Ireland has seen over four times as many instances of child abandonnent as has Britain.
As the slogan goes, ever child a wanted child campaign Nobody should be taken in by the Tory argument concern for the child, unborn or otherwise, since major priority for the Tories will be the slashing of social service provision In the words of the American pro-choice campaigners fightCLE ISL to make the International Year of the Chil the year of the wanted and loved child. Many of those who claim to be concerned with the life of focuses are those who against more welfare has hey do not care fou They do not care about what happens once the children are born.
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