IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Sex is not just about babies

Socialist Challenge No. 137, 6 March 1980 · p. 11 of the scan · 424 words

The scan: sc-n137-mar-06-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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I AM a member of the National Abortion Campaign. I am also a lesbian. Why should women who choose to sleep with other women rather than with men abortion? We don't run the risk of unwanted pregnancy, unless of course we have the ill fortune to be raped. Is fighting for abortion rights something 'unliberated" heterosexual sisters?

the right to decide how many children to have. It is about the right as women to decide for ourselves about our own bodies and how we live our own lives.

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If we like to do it too WC al C HIYILEOLIOmaniacs, if we don't like to do it much we are frigid and WE KCO COIL WILL OUCE women we are perverts. If we do it men then the worry of pregnancy. be bothered about do help OUr No! The fight for abortion isn't just about back of our mind?

It is vital that we know that it we by mistake that we can get a safe early abortion and that WC WILL HO LICaLCU murderers or irresponsible, to take the consequences our own exactly the freedom enjoy sex for itself without une worry or pregnancy ural the anti-abortionists oppose.

It is no coincidence that the pillars of the antimovement, particularly the Church, are homosexual. They provide a package dear or prejuaice abortion is murder and lesbianism sickness from which we can be cured.

Lesbianism challenges the that relationships belong in the nuclear family and eventually end in reproduction. challenges the idea that our proper place is living with a and having his children. Until SOCICLy This article is reprinted irom ne wvanonal Abortion Campaign Newsletter, recognises that sex is not just about babies we will never have the freedom to CHOOSE WHO We love. WIIO we live with and who we have sex The National Abortion Campaign believes that no woman should be forced to continue with an unwanted Dregnancy and no should be denied the right to have a child if she wants heterosexual.

The recent fuss over TOT lesbians has shown how the people who run this society CORLEO. fertility. If we are sexually 'normal", ie sleep with men, AC CUSCO LIC BEIL LO decide for ourselves whether we go through with But it we are "queer', ie sleep with other women, we are refused the

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