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RESPONSIBILITY

Red Weekly No. 118, 25 September 1975 · p. 4 of the scan · 302 words

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page 4 of the scan

• How did you come to have an boy-friend and 1 split up I stopped. didn't know that stopping makes you very soon afterwards.

I live with my parents ily. single people, especially women, sick every day.

that didn't work either. I was then child.

Barcelona to do an abortion? London, but many stay here. university student told me.' "She can get three years in prison for adultery.

Single mothers are known to abandon Interestingly enough, a foetus is not Wages around £400.

The penalties for performing and ing to region and class. The statutes lay down a penalty of six years imimprisoned with Lidia Falcon is serving a term for four abortions, including one woman who died. Her fees were about one-third as much as those of a doctor, whose fee averOne question arises immediately is there a women's movement in Spain which works for contraception and abortion? Unfortunately not. Many women interested in women's liberation feel that the immediate fight against the dictatorship takes a higher priority. Nonetheless, women are very active in I was lucky - many women die by In Britain, one of the provisions of the James White Abortion (Amendment) Bill would exclude foreign women from coning here for abortions. Even if the White Bill is to be dropped, we should launch a vigorous campaign against any other govern ment-proposed attempts at tightening up' - such as those proposed in the Select Committee Report which could lead to any more difficulties for non-British women.

We have a special responsibility in fighting against any moves in this • As one Spanish woman at the 21 June NAC demonstration put it: "This is the first time I have ever been in England for anything but abortion. Your movement is more important for us than I can explain.

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