romantic stories are usually the staple fare of Woman's Own. But this week, with the Corrie anti-abortion Bill about to begin its mould to publish the findings of a specially commissioned Gallup The poll reveals that 80 per with a pregnancy should be left to the woman in consultation with her doctor — a clear indication that the women of this country do not want the Corrie Bill.
the people polled felt that the 1967 Abortion Act should either be kept as Only 33 per cent felt that the law and this included the small 10 per cent who felt abortion should never Findings Last weekend the publication of the findings of a poll conducted by MORI for the Sunday similar theme revealed similar results. 56 per cent of those asked tell inal abortion legally available for want it, while only 29 per cent were Whatever else John Corrie thinks he may be doing he can no longer claim to be giving the public what it wants. Least of all can he claim to be giving women what they want.
CYCL cent believe that the law should stay proportion of Catholics who think abortion should never be allowed is whole, it is still only 20 per cent who hold this extreme view, them most interesting.
Moralists John Corrie has had plenty of evidence laid before him which shows that his Bill is not wanted except by a small: •of religious bigots.
The significant thing is that two such mainstream - if not downright 'establishment' papais published the figures prominence. Although the press in enera stil loves the core and horror of a good-old, bad abortion story there is the beginning of a change of attitude.
Perhaps the reality of returning Times on a should be all those who when endorsed by such moraists and have She used to such victim Irfa Rayner's to espouse, let 81 per cent of women feel it •61 their doctors, whether or not to she • 53 per cent of women feel be • 80 available in case of contra61 per cent of people would want an abortion if they or ahead became way pregnant as a result of rape.
The available if it was discovered they late in pregnancy they were carrying a severely deformed to the backstreets' has sunk in on one or two well-placed newspaper people.
More likely they have been forced to wake up to the reality of public opinion in this country, particularly been VITOENY prestigious bodies as the British Medical Association Claire Rayner, who used to run the Sun's problem page and is very much behind Woman's Own's attack on the Corrie Bill, has a clear view.
nurse and remembers vividly when a young girl of about her age died in her arms, the oi a backstreet abortionist words: 'If John the Corrie wants a Parliamentary caust me offer him one... the provision of really effective and per cent of women felt that if a woman became unintentionally pregnant while in, past the menopause, she should be able to have an abortion.
per cent of women thought that if legal abortion was made more difficult to obtain then women would go and seek some other to end an unwanted pregnancy. 62 per cent of women interreiwed would keep a child if became unintentionally pregnant. In other words beike people anti-child. pro-choice does easily available contraception for all. than we need this ill-advised, anti-life insignificant person to have on our side, and her opinion is shared by most of the other "problem page advisers such as Marje Proops and Anna Raeburn.' Angela Willans, of the Woman's One Core Gil: Spa elis ales that no one who: has heard 'hundreds genuine cries for help unhappily pregnant' can really view that aborțion irresponsible or particularly easy.
We should welcome this clear 'stand by Woman's Own, and by the ANGELA WILLANS Grant's Problem Page that her job was sing the inundated with letters from women desperate for help in unwanted pregnancies.
- of Mary explained utterly depres '67 Act. She was ending things in THERE is a small glimmer of light on the Parliamentary front in the fight to stop the Corrie Bill. Only 98 MPs voted against the Second Reading of the Bill, but at a press conference last Friday, Willie Hamilton Labour MP revealed that he had a list of 160 MPs