cle for what seems like hours. Officious footsteps pass the door - is it my turn? Hanging on the very edge of a cliff, waiting for a nouncement that could completely change one's life.
Dramatic? Exaggerated? Far from it. This is the crunch SEEKIE ON EROTION Whatever she plans for her life can be completely swept away in a However armed she is knowledge, however good a case she can present (and where is she trained for such is final.
The reality of A Woman's Right to Choose' nowadays. is that woman ever had under the 1967 Abortion Act are progressively being chipped away untu eventually the ow against women.
Altitudes have not changed enner — any woman becoming accidental ly pregnant is guilty and must not get off lightly. That's for your lack of serious research into safe. effective contraception!
So what is happening? Some GPs use delaying tactics in the hope you'll change rest: "take these pills and if you don't have a period come back LOOKE LORD HEER some cases, red to another, doctor's propatient appointments are moment for any woman back to the GP again matter of if you weeks for admission. be like is anyhody's gwess HERES D will be turned much dividual doctors - blame us women WAIT measures.
the many secution If the Act, in a week: think help.
Ur eise, the referral letter doer not nre sent a good case to the consultant: and in women are referred to a con Others refuse outricht, and do not point out that you have a right to be referGPs simply chase women out of their surgery shauting murderer! (Yes, it does In the hospitals, waiting lists for ourgetting longer from two weeks. if you're lucky, to nine or The consultant may use delaying tactics, or refuse - then its succeen theres oper What the staff will ine wernates, car care chics, exist only in some areas and are threatened by cut-backs. They are run by the NHS and provide a quick reverrat, and eary abor tion service that is sympathetic. The charity clinics are also quick, efficient and sympathetic, but they cost over £700.
The latest moves by the Departmens of Health and Social Security to prevent doe tors from performing abortions for social reasons and the pressure being put on in will result in desperate will resort lo desperate Back-street abortion is a reality. So are women who dred of sepsis. or great pain and alone, through fear of pro changed, then not even the charities can
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