Birmingham NAC campaigners held a street meeting in the main shopping centre last Saturday to highlight the sabotage even of the 1967 Act by reactionary consultants tion mounts - following the Labour in the direction of prevention' remains pie in the sky. She was referring to the Labour Government's scheme to GPs other than their own at no cost. but me to November issue or Doctor shows that this is largely a fake.
have posted lists of GPs in their areas Government's acceptance of the restrictive Third Report of the Select Commitlee — barbara Casue s pious claim that the Government is taking 'serious steps allow women to get contraception Iron the social services.
First of all, the Government has taken no measures to publicise the scheme. A survey of nine area health authorities in Greater London showed that only three class.
these areas the number of doctors partThe National Abortion Campaign is fighting these attacks to women's abortion rights by organising a Week of Action with the reopening of the new parliamenof DHSS offices, rallies, motorcades and Wilson too. public meetings will take place throughities is opposition to the re-constitution of the Select Committee which was set up in March after the second reading of the James White Abortion (Amendment)
The Government may try to hide the or by extending its framework to include an investigation into the more liberal findings of the Lane Committee. But any Select Committee is unacceptable!
Even the women Labour MPs 'sympathetic to NAC put their names to the Select Committee's restrictive Report.
After all, to call for freely available abortion facilities on demand on the NHS, as NAC does, means opposing the pres ent cuts in spending in the NHS and all Thus they would have to oppose a centra part or me Govern ment's present plan to solve the capitalist crisis at the expense of the working Instead of listening to the recommenda************************************* THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER - LOBBY YOUR MP IN PARLIAMENT.
Hundreds of NAC supporters will be converging on the House of Cammons to urge a vote against the reconvening of the Select Committes.
Write to your MP in advance to let him/her know, then turn up at 2.00 or 6.00 pm to join the lobby. Women Labour MPs will also be recalving the 'abortion on demand" petition bearing thousands of signatures. Off.
icial delegations from labour movement organisations will be lobbyin SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER - MASS RALLY IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE. Come along between 2.00 and 4.00 pm with banners. Speakers will include Labour MPs, trade union representatives, doctors who support abortion on demand, and well known women. Theatre groups and singers will be providing entertainment as well.
*************** fifteen MPs with an inherent anti-abortion bias, the Labour Government must be made to listen to the representatives of the mass of working people in Britain - the very people whose interests it is supposed to represent. It should be held responsible to the Labour Party and TUC conferences which both voted for abortion on request. The NAC Week of Action can be an important step in posing this demand throughout the labour movement. INTERNATIONAL ABORTION DEMO in Rome, Saturday 6 December - for details of cheap transport, contact NAC, 30 Camden Road, London NW1 (01 485 4303).
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TWO IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE WEEK OF ACTION IN THE LONDON REGION