By Julia South & Jane Marshall (Merseyside NAC);
Goodwin, Sarah Vickerstaff & Jo Mussen (NAC Steering Cttee); Dianne Grimsditch (Preston Women's Centre).
THE MAIN AIM of NAC has been 'free abortion on demand — a woman's right to choose' since 1975 when the campaign began. All of us remain committed to that aim, but some of us feel we've become complacent about what 'a woman's right to choose' means.
"Choice' suggests being reflect actual able to pick from an ideal needs and experiences. set of options. But we are NAC did this on the deluding ourselves if issue of abortion in the believe that women in this '70s, and at that time our can make choices - demands were radical. But about having children or experiences both in LOL. when there are over NAC and in the women's four million unemployed, movement generally since when the most fren have women earn (if at all) are that focus exclusively still abysmally low, when on HONKON rights is no being married or not longer enough. makes so much difference, when there is such a lot of isolated event in women's A DOLOR very often unchallenged aves. It means something on DOLI in- different to woman dividual institu- whose doctor is discouragtionalised level, and when Ing ner Trom daving a laura we are faced with virulent child by suggesting anti-lesbianism.
campaign that in- whose husband has just tends to speak for women been made redundant, to a needs a political perspec- women involved in tive demands that relationNOMENS CHOICE NOT DOCTORS CHOICE
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Helen Minett &. Cathy Manthorpe (Leeds NAC); Isabel Ros (Norwich NAC); Marge Berer, Julia