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TWENTY thousand anti-choice demonstrators attended a rally calling for restriction on abortion rights in London's Hyde Park last Saturday.
A counter rally organised by the National Abortion Campaign chanted slogans for a woman's right to choose.
The Hyde Park rally was the culmination of a campaion waced by the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child and LIFE.
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Last weekend's rals was, horrifically enough, called to commemorate the supposed two million 'unborn' since the 1967 Abortion Act. Speakers at the rally included archight win IOrY Mr Bernard Braine anc recent Catholic convert Malcolm Muggeridge.
Their audience were predominantly young middle class men and Wolenmnkeny different from the droves VI COLVCLE SCIOOT children driven on by nuns that characterised previous rallies.
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The counter-demonstration was alternately spat at and prinkled with holy water.
Police kept them pinned up in a side street.
movement has won some notable success in recent weeks for its case. The main health service union, COHSE, affiliated to NAC at their conerence nsmont while NALGO conference heard NAC's case at an extremely well-attended ringe meeting NAC is holding it conference on 1-2 October this year to discuss how to compal the rising tide of the anti-abortion movement and to discuss the way forward for the campaign. we are offering a free copy of Hard Times, a new book in the 'Arguments for Socialism' series by Bob Sutcliffe. The book normally costs $2.50.
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