CRIMES PAULINE MELVILLE ALOTTE CORNWALL abortionists on Alton's side, clear pro-choice members on the other side. On Alton's Ann Winterton MP withdrawn, to be replaced member exècutive. However, despite up the committee it may well be amended" committee stage, by -Alton's supporters, to a 22 or week limit, instead of the existing 18 weeks.
If the bill is amended in this way it will be even more difficult to ensure its defeat the third final reading, unless minimum, all Labour MPs committed vote alc against it.
The largest possible showing on the streets on 19 March will help step up the pressure on MPs to vote in line with women's abortion rights. The rally will be addressed by representatives of the movement and pro-choice movement, doctors representatives of health service workers.
While the task of FAB is to defeat the attempt 1967 Alton to amend the Abortion Act, are being. undermined every the cuts in the NHS smaller able to get free abortion on the NHS, ane most have to pay for abortion at privaté clinics.
Alton would do
hundred times make late abortion unnecessary by joining the campaign for the detence of the NHS and the extension of eariv abortion tacilitie. introducing legislation by NHS clinics, than by criminalise women doctors.
It is indicative of the sheer hypocrisy of the arguments of Alton and his supporters on the subject of late abortion that they ar not seen in the vanguard o the NHS the struggle Ior Most of those Tory MPs who will be supporting Alton's bill, will also vote allocating more funding to the NHS, and
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Called by TAB (Fight Alton's Bill Campaign/ TUC/Labour Party