WLEKS NO TIME AT ALI | Socialist Action 1983

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ALTON'S DAVID ALTON's Private Member's Bill to reduce the upper time limits for legal abortion by 10 weeks - from 28 to 18 is the most serious attack yet on women's access to safe abortion under the 1967 Act. If passed his proposal would hit abortion rights for up to 23,000 women a year and indirectly threaten many more.

But Alton has chosen his ground carefully. Previous anti-abortion bills such as Benyon's, White's and Corrie's, attacked head-on women's access to abortion. These bills were openly anti-abortion bills aimed at severely restricting the gains of the 1967 Act.

Alton however has avoided this direct ideological confrontation over women's access to abortion. He has made his fight that of stopping 'late abortion' -posing the issue as one of lowering time limits in line with foetal viability. He has added to this an apparent concern for those with disabilities, attacking STOP BILL!

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