CORRIE DEFEATED! now fight for NHS abortion on demand

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* Ki The Corrie Amendment Both are unconcerned with the wishes and health women's abortion rights, has of working class women, and both are anxious to make profits. The Tories in Parliament are eager time, For this session of Parliame for abortion restrictions, at least partly because NURE the limited access to abortion offi this excludes more women from employment, and 1967 Abortion Act is still availabl thus alleviates the present economic crisis and •The immediate cause of the Corrie was the filibustering of a few Tribun ufacturers are eager to 'get rich quick' by exploitthe huge number of amendments ta ing the huge demand for contraception, regardless held up voting on the Bill itself. Howe of the consequences for women's health. For both sets of capitalists, the prime concern is profitability mass mobilisations of/women and mer Bill that was crucially important. not the health and freedom of working women.

MPs voted 242 to 98 to give the B It is obvious that as long as the means of controlling fertility are in the hands of the capitalist Reading fast June, but between then a class, not controlled by the workers in drug comReading last month, there has bee panies and the NHS and the women who need condemonstration against Corrie, called I traception and abortion, the health of women will : which conservative estimates put at massive tobbies of Parliament.

With this kind of opposition, the Research into new abortion techniques and into robe unable to give Corrie extra time fos new contraceptive, drugs is inadequate. New risk being seen openly as anti-abortion methods of controlling fertility are given the go14 However, it is paradoxical that at t! ahead': before sufficient testing has been carried women back'into the home through i the Tories in Parliament are tryi out, and before harmful side effects have been eliminated. Drug companies can make huge profits ing cuts and unwanted child-bearing, without having to discover really safe and effective the drug trade are trying to foist a ne Working women must demand the nationalisaDepo-Provera, a drug which is i tion of drug companies under workers' and users' prohibits contraception for a three m control, and also the establishment within the has up tilt now been banned tor safety NHS of elected committees of workers and has just recently beep given the 'go at consumers who are accountable to the community despite the fact that Depo Provera is I they serve, Equally, we must not be satistied with linked to cancer of the cervix, and o1 the mere defence of the 1967 Act. We must go on side effects: 'Even: the manufacturer the oftensive demanding adequate abortion •women who are injected with the drug tacilities, and putting pressure on Labour Party years. or with large doses, should b MPs to liberalise the present abortion legislation and make choice about abortion a matter for In fact, though, Tory anti-abort women, not Parliament or the medical profession capitalists, in the drug trade, have a lot IMPERIALISM At the centre of rising struggles against British military rule in the North of Ireland has been the courageous 3-year "blanket' Bill to restrict now run out of Ont, at least, ered by the •Bill's failure ite MPs, and bled, which ver it was the › against the Will its Second nd the Third the huge y the TUC, 40,000 and be at risk.

Tories would • his Bill, and he same time ing to force rublic spendcapitalists in ~ contracep- preparations. tive on women.

Injected and onth period, reasons, but lead'. This is ‹nown to be ther harmful *ș say that I over several * examined carefully for side effects.

Zionists and in common. to decide.

AT WAND NA ABORTION STUA EF SAFE OPPOSE THE CORRIE BILL

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