burdens on women in the family resistance.
cern to the whole working class.
own throat. trictive proposals. cuts.
A strengthening of this view, and a denial of a woman's right to choose when and if to have children, only clouds the vicious attacks y of the Wilson Government on the living standards of the whole of the working class. When welfare cuts take place — thus putting extra this is often accepted as a female trial to be borne without When the right of women to work is challenged by redundancy, this is seldom opposed by men and women workers, who see women as already 'employed' in the home.
The fight for the right of women to control their own bodies is thus a matter of conis not a matter of individual conscience or an issue simply affecting women. Unless the labour movement understands this it will cut its The NAC Conference this weekend has to build a campaign that will reject the anti-abortion measures of the Select Committee. There is no point in MPs claiming that they support the right of a woman to choose, joining the tions. Select Committee and then endorsing its resthe abortion rate in Italy is higher than that for live births, and more than 2,000 women die every year from botched back-street aborItaly has a huge unemployment rate, the lowest percentage of employed female labour in Europe, and the highest infant mortality rate in the Common Market. At the same time thousands of Italian workers are returning to their homes after being laid-off in other European countries. This has prompted sections of the Italian capitalist class to try to introduce some measures of birth control. However, any reforms are to be strictly
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