Still defending abortion rights six years after the Corrie Bill women are the property of their 'elders and betters'. Any notion of a 'right to choose' for young women in the future will be a joke.
The Gillick ruling will not work. Women are not going to sit back and wait OUCH CALCE DICK for permission from those that supposedly know betDHSS figures show that in 1983 over 17,000 under-16s attended Family Planning Clinics England Wales, almost all of whom were already sexually active. Only one third of these had any sort of support from their parents.
The other two thirds now feel unable to make even an initial visit for fear their parents will find out.
As a result more young women will be forced into having children they don't want. More young women will go through the trauma of childbirth followed by adoption, more young women will have to have abortions parlicularly more cacksiree abortons.
Gillick is a godsend for the backstreet profiteers If a young women is terrified of her parents finding out she wanted contraceptive advice, then she not • going to risk them discovering Sult questing an abortion. SAF