movement announced on 7 June that the previous week 10 illegal abortions had been carried out in seven different cities. The purpose of the abortions feminists using the abortions — was to highlight the inadequacy of the Spanish abortion law and demand free abortion on demand.
The announcement highlighted the lack of any commitment to improve the abortion laws in the governing Socialist Party (PSOE)
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In its first year of operation, this abortion law has only resolved the situation of 2 or 3 per cent of women wanting abortion. The law only allows or terminahon of pregnancy when two doctors agree danger, or that the foetus is diseased or deformed, or THE ABORTION campaign of the Spanish feminist — all performed rapidly and without anaesthetic by aspiration method for early case of rapé. The per cent of By M Lear women still have to seek backstreet abortions, with allf accompanying hygiene dangers Laver lo London 11 ther can afford it.
Last November, for example, the papers publicis.ed the case of Carmen, a 39-year old mother four, pregnant with suffering.
Down's syndrome. For several weeks she was unable to obtain an abortion allowed for under the law She had when .21 weeks pregnant after every hospital in Greater Barcelona had flatly of the Ministry of Health to perform the abortion The 'conscience' clause in the abortion law is so wide, and the reluctance of the Socialist challenge reactionary administrations anno CHOCLOTS glaring that the law can be flouted During last November of 4000 women in Barcelona celebrating 10 years of the mass feminist movement, two abortions were performed by women using the Karman aspiration conscious challenge to the •state, over 3000 women signed statement 111criminating themselves for performing the abortions. Police Haves canoe resulted in no prosecution, for 'lack of evidence'. real reason was that women's massive solidarity would have turned any prosecution into a denunciation of the disgraceful lack of abortion provision, highlighted the government's lack of will even to calty oul lne extremely limited law.
, Such simple, rapid safe abortions, performed without need O1 allacs complicated technology, also challenge medical protession's control of health. By USC the aspiration method, are showing that the majority of abortions could be carried out by _Pard medical staff in day clinics.
This campaign Spanish feminists is receiving strong union and left porters of a woman's right SUODULL, British to choose nave a speciti responsibility to highlight plight Spanish women who travel to London for abortions usually having to rely on a private medicine system and hostels run strictly for profit not support.
• Message‹ supporting the abortion campaign can be sent lo Abortion Campaign Movement Apartado 32125 Barcelona. Messages prorest government's abortion SOLIC •CUI be Felipe González, Presidente del Gobierno, Palacio de la Moncloa, Madrid, Spain.
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discrimination quotas by the right of Rehnquist. 10 July last year. The French socialist of European declaration opposing for an apology for the secretary general.
Rehnquist, described as 'well to the right of the Reagan administration', is against abortion, for capital punishment, and against positive - all key issues on which Reagan has been trying to turn back the clock with the Court's assistance. Scalia is probably to The nominations have to be confirmed by the Senate, which normally rubber-stamps them, though it recently rebuffed Reagan when he tried to appoint a former Ku Klux Klan member.
France has temporarily lifted its trade sanctions against New Zealand, imposed in retaliation for the arrest, trial and detention of two of its agents who blew up the Rainbow Warrior, killing a Greenpeace photographer, on government imposed a blockade on the import after New Zealand sent the two agents to trial.
France, a co-signatory of the recent 'state terrorism', has still not acceded to New Zealand's request incident.
The new move follows agreement to seek arbitration, to be handled by the United Nations