Italy - first step to free abortion

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divorce, to travel unaccompanied and to control their own finances. But they rarely find that they can make the decision of whether or not Abortion was first outlawed by the Church. It has been estimated that about nine million women were killed during the Church-led witch-hunts of the Middle Ages. According to trial records, their 'crimes involved practising abortion, giving contraceptive advice, and using drugs to aid delivery. It took about nundred years to wrest control of fertility from women and to establish the state and its medical and 30p including post and packing.

The rationale for giving women worse colcano Or woman's place is in the home. The nemale uncuon is to nave cularen, d biologically determined role. icallv. science and technology have invented the means of overcoming prohibits their availability.

Contraception can be over 9y per cent effective and abortion can be safer than childbirth. diction between what is possible and four what is allowed grows sharper every scientific development. trictive laws force women to choose between unwilling motherhood and 25р AVAILABLE from Red Books 182, Pentonville Road,London, N1. The contraResopposition of including Democratic Government.

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elections Calls orne canistan Democrats formed. oric compromise the enristar provided Issues abortion is lems, as the Tne woman LAST FRIDAY the Italian Chamber of Deputies passed what the Vati- stances can described as 'the easiest and most indiscriminate' abortion law in the world. This was against the there Wille the minority Christian The italian bill is a comoosite produced by a parliamentary com bills tabled by eight different parties. As such it Ton a crime naraiv cerenes a wollas HUHL tU choose, but it makes a large dent in the existing fascist Rocco law signatures, Socialist Party called for a reter endum on abortion. This initiated a major political crisis. After their defeat over the divChristian crats were unable to contemplate Line elections June last year were a manoeuvre resulted Party (re, but many Governmen Was The PCI's strategy of the hist means a desire both to enter into a coalition with Democrats and no to rock the boat in the present Chamber of Deputies. It has so far DU Issue causing some prot official PCI line is that the final say should be with Virtually everv party has put some proposal for amending the Rocco law, which forbids abortion under r any circumThe constitutional court has laid down inat abortion must be legalised where grave mother's health and in rape cases Under the pressure of the Catholic hierarchy. the Christian Dem ocrats presented proposals insis ting above all on the defence of life and continuing to call aborPlatform at pro-abortion rally organised by Radical Party NAN MY

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RED WEEKLY 27 January 1977 1 campaign is to fight to implement TUC policy on

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