Socialist Challenge1980Socialist Challenge No. 133, 7 February 198030 WOMEN DIED FROM BACKSTREET ABORTION IN1966 NOT ONE DIED IN 1978
Socialist Challenge No. 133, 7 February 1980 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 143 words
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Deaths from illegal abortions: 1966 1977 1978 1980 Hospital admissions due to septic abortions:
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2,560 'Shot-gun' marriages: 1967 1978 1980 In 1978, just over a decade after the introduction of the 1967 Abortion Act, there were 142,344 abortions in Britain. A leading antiabortionist, Professor 75,000 30,000 ? Scarisbrick, says that the Corrie Bill -which has its third reading in the House of Commons this Friday - would eliminate two-thirds of these...
In other words, 100,000 women a year may be forced to turn to the backstreets.
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Socialist, Challenge, 328/9 Upper St, London NI. Editorial: 01-359 8180/9: Distribution and advertising 01-359 8371. OUR POLICIES C'apitalion is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade WHAT DOES it mean for socialists to call for a issue for millions after the Denning judgement (see