SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Reagan backs the anti- abortion movement

Socialist Action No. 129, 31 January 1986 · p. 4 of the scan · 144 words

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for the second yeal Reagan has addressed the March for Life rally, a mass gathering of anti-abortionists, and pledged himself to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalising abortion. will ensure the resources or covernment are not us. ed to promote or perform abortions,' he said in a radio link up which brought his disembodied voice direct to the rally.

In a telegram to Reagan Kate Michelman, executive director of the National Abortion Rights Action League, said 'Your inflammatory rhetoric, as well as the activity of other anti-choice leaders, has created a climate leading to 65 incidents of domestic terrorism since you took office in 1980.' The incidents concerned assaults, in which bomb attacks have been prominent, on abortion centres by the defenders of the right to life' running President 'Together we comprise physical Allied Workers Union, even though Chester Humphrey Council

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