paign which diew together the women's movement, trade unionists, Labour Party activists, students, and young people. • Now that attacks on abortion rights are no longer front page news, the Department of Health has been trying to introduce Corrie's backdoor.
Not content with sacking two civil servants who supported the lobby of Parliament on 5 February, the • Department has been imposing harsher restrictions and it continues to employ ex-CID officers to police the 1967 Abortion Act.
Hospitals are imposing their own time-limits and existing facilities are threatened by cuts.
Those of us in the National Abortion Campaign who believe that women should have the right to even proposals • by the choose winow tea or micaca resucons are sci "and tired of having to defend an Act which doesn't give women that choice All the pro-choice groups are agreed that we hav to go on the offensive. The best way to do that is now being debated Various options by way of Parliamentary Private •Members its are under discussions tempt to make the provision of abortion facilities mandatory on the NHS. Another consideration is the decriminalisation of menstrual extraction, an abortion method which can be used up to 6-8 weeks into - At a recent meeting at the House of Commons, a working. party was set up by several pro-choice possibilities One is to atis to choose.
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While a parliamentary focus is important, Parliament will not be the main arena where the fight for a woman's right to choose will take place.
To win this right we have to mobilise the strength that defeated Corrie, but this time behind NAC's position of no legal or medical restrictions. The task • overcle legislate in accordance with Labour Party policy.
The draft Labour Party manifesto includes But without pressure on the Labour Party that policy will be ignored by the Parliamentary holding •Have Forum and affiliate to NAC.
Party, take up the issue of the free vote.
Without the fight being taken into thi unions, block votes will continue to support vote for Labour MPs on abortion, thüs igno wishes of millions of working class people m Labour, and perpetuating the myth that abo matter of individual conscience not class, women's forum - o November to take up the discussion on how k for a woman's right to choose with women Ins Plans are also well under way for a NACAL labour movement conference next March: This already been sponsored by NUPE and the NUS What you can do: Get your union branch or to sponsor the NAC/LARC trade union confe union or other organisation to support the W If your trade union is affiliated to the E