A FOURTEEN year gaol sentence! That's what doctors who continue to apply the 1967 Abortion Act - giving them the ability to arrange abortions on non-medical grounds - face. Peter Huntingford Peter Huntingford, well known campaigner and doctor for a woman's right choose has decide if after 14 years he is going to give medical grounds for abortion the Department of Healtn and Social Security form VASTE LICE AL TOC-U face the threat of prosecuabortion. DHSS not changed This is a serious situation for doctors like Peter Huntingford but for the 80 percent of women who seek abortions tor socia threatens Many doctors now will refuse gIve abortions for non-medical reasons for fear of secutions. As Peter Huntingford said, If this prosecution goes ahead, would regard it as the prosecution of eighty per cent of women who have had OCT HIC 1967 act.
From the pressure, abortionists, to intimidate doctors into severely restricting practices. It is chopping away SECOS BOREREDETI of the 67 act without daring to debate it in parliament.
But if "the DHSS thought it could sneak this through without people fighting back then it is grossly mistaken.
At a large meeting at the House of Commons WEEN MPs, trade unionists and pro-choice organisations came together for a council of Time to start organising mass activities again war and worked out a local and national campaign to support the threatened COMOR the new form. There has to stop the Director of Public Prosecutions bringing these charges.
Tuesday 9 Feburary has been chosen as the dar of action. There is a lobby of paramca demonstration in London on that dav. There will be local actions in all the major towns Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Cardiff, Liverpool Manchester well as in Scotland.
Trade and Labour members should discuss this issu and demand that the TUC and the Labour Party nationally take action. Corrie's bill to restrict abortion was only stopped by the strength of the labour movement. We have to ensure that on this even more serious threat to women's movement fights and fights GUICAIY protection of the law. Horror During the Yorkshi! Ripper scare, for instanc the press were outrags when the murderer turne PH stitutes (fair game) (whic 'respectable means 'our") women vocate that the law shou riage and many would st find it hard to believe th the majority of rapes a committed wh are known to the victim.
And it's easy to s The sexual violen of husbands ma friends or acquaintances simply not viewed with th same horror or given tr same name.
It's an accepted haza of women's relationshi WELCH and ts wh happens when women a the wrong impression' 'lead men on Power There is no single, sin ple solution to the crime c The roots of sexu violence go deep. They as buried in the social cond BONUS WHEN CISIONE human relationships, pa CHICHIETY those DCINCE women and men, whe violence is used tolerated - a means ‹ others It is necessary to can paign for the rights of t victims. to publicly fun women-run rape crisis ce tres, to protect the victim sure full physical and me tal support is given to th victim following It is also necessary take up facilities such street lighting and la night bus SOLTICE women who work at nigh vital part of movement against will be for women to seen as independent pe ple their own righ fighting for right fighting against their in age as passive recipients: male sexual needs This task is not simp the task of women but: those who ally themselv with women.
Defending a woman right to choose on abo tion Torie moves to restrict the 19 Abortion Act will be i important parl struggle. - Socialist Challenge. 4 February. 1982 page i