TONAL > CAMPAIEN BRITİSH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL FEDERATION ENTRANCE in the areas. his position on 18-19 October.
also hotting up.
David Young, MP for Bolton West, has consistently voted in favour of the restrictive measures of the James White Abortion (Amendment) Bill. But Mr Young found that he had a fight on his hands with his local party. Every ward in his constituency has gone on record in opposition to restrictive legislation. Young is now muttering about the fact that he may have to change Such action - taking the fight into the so-called domain of the right-wing MPs - obviously lays the ground for building real support based on action, for the conference In Sheffield Brightside Constituency Labour Party the campaign is A member of the Brightside Party reports: "The discussion around abortion has been one of the most major debates that we have held inside the CLP for years.' Supporters of the NAC conference are taking the issue into the local labour movement and are expecting to get representation not only from Labour parties and women's groups but also from shop stewards' conmittees and trade PICKETS In Leeds a picket has been organised at the General Infirmary, where the domination of certain Roman Catholic gynaecologists has made sure that abortions at this hospital are few and far between The pickets are demanding that the hospital administration carries out the terms of the 1967 Abortion Act.
Nor are actions lagging behind in Newcastle. A teach-in has been organised in a working class district for Saturday 4 October, and Labour parties and union branches have been mailed to attend. NAC will also be active in the conference called by the Newcastle Trades Council on the Working Women's Charter, and will be urging support there for the NAC conference.
Supporters in Nottingham have organised a public meeting accompanied by street theatre for 4 October. A film showis being held at the University on the same date, and the campaign is supported by the Market Ward of the Nottingham Labour Party and the Calverton branch of the National Union of Mineworkers
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Preparations for the National Abortion Campaign conference are really getting under way as a result of initiatives being organised