choice doctor, Peter facilties and laws that IN SOME ways the past year has been a successful one for the abortion rights struggle. An attempt to severely restrict women's rights to abortion through removing the social grounds for abortion and prosecuting the leading pro.
Huntingford was our major work must be.
NAC has been and must remain a campaign to defend and extend the legal right to abortion and for facilities and it should keep the name which lor seven years has done this. resolution Leeds NAC suggests that the constitution of NAC should be scrapped in favour of a declaration that the main aim of NAC is 'to contribute to the attainment of a society in which every Wulilall.. has the right to control her own fertility and determine her own sexuality:' This is absurdly vague.
It would mean campaign would become so dissipated so varied that there would nothing hold National Abortion Campaign The question of abortion remains the key issue for controlling women's If NAC does not keep up the fight on this issue, hay ultimate goals we most. Have lost Moreover, there is danger that we will allow much of the fantastic support that NAC has built up inside the labour moveof women to fall away.
Concern It is clear that the fight means over. The proposed taken up by conference as a means to araw public al tention to the vast inequalities in abortion provision throughout the coun try and the effect of Tory cutbacks, and demonstrate the inadequacies of the present legislation.
It can also be used to show LOC quality of facilities that women need build support ihe facilities bill which has NAC has been discussing positive legislation since 1976. Yet it has not developed this campaign very far. The 1967 Act has proved itself inadequate to defend our needs. The pro choice forces fighting for the type of abortion law and practice which we want and committing the next Labour government to take this " The next stage in such a campaign is begin to KOOK decriminalisation of aborHuntingtord laced thirteen years jail because abortion is still a crimina act This must be changed and decriminalisation must be accompaniea Dy legisla LION which could woman's right to choose whether or not to continue with a pregnancy.
NAC should be getting to grips with thest issues and consolidating its gain inside the labour movement rather than sitting around discussing its owll Halle Badges available at 25p each + 12½p postage.
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