coln's Inn Fields to Jubille Gardens on 23 June call.
which makes it illegal to give advice on contraception and abortion to under 16's without parental consent.
The appeal, which began Tuesday, is being made by the Department of Health and Security against VicGillick case last December in the High Court by challenging the DHSS guidelines counselling with regard to young people, which urged parental involvement in normal circumstances but recognised that there were exceptional circumstances where this decision should be made the doctor This ruling made it iladvice or treatment on contracention or abortion and for schools to do the sallie without parental consent. Whether or not it is illegal to give information, like sex education, is tion is still ambiguous.
The presence of a large number of young people - the ruling affects young men's access to contracepwell YOURS right to choose behind the NUS banner, Young Socialist banners and YCND banners at the front or behind far left banners at the back, made people marched from Lin ing on the Law Lords to reverse the Gillick ruling it• clear who would be Leading the fight against the values Victoria Taken with the recent changes housing benefits forcing young swinging cuts benefit for the thousands of youth on the dole it is clear that the moral majority is on the offensive, to roll back the gains of the *permissive society' At the centre of this offensive the need to stabilise the family and defend the British way of alTe What crankish 10 years ago and more acceptable in But the speaker from the Brook advisory said on the demonstration a very large number OI parents would rather their children used contraceptives than became pregnant and forced into early motherhood. Il s lne pall and misery of being forced naye children young people cannot afford and are not ready for visit the back street abortionist that has to be understood. 'I had a child at 15 and I don't want my through what went through,' was the reaction of many parents according to the speaker.
The so-called "problems' of under age sex Will not go away because of Mrs Gillick's ruling. The myth that 'nice girls' don't was destroyed long. ago. breaks through class what right have the Victoria Gillick's of this world to tell young people how they should or shouldn't behave?
The National Union of Students representative pointed out that this was year and young people of 14-16 would be able to vote the next election. 'We will not forget a government that overturned our rights. wv e will noU allow Gillick to trampie all over us This fighting message needs to be taken into the schools, colleges, workplaces dole queues to prepare a huge response in six weeks time when the Law Lords announce me ocus on.
But most crucially the to the Labour Party and the trade unions. The Militant led YS National Committee did not implement its mandate and build this demonstration in a big way.
Young people have to organise and go out into the labour movement and explain why they should have the right to decide banning -contraceptive and abortion advice nothing them and why knowledge is the best way to improve the lives of young people today.
Jo Richardson read out a message from the ACTT supporting the demonstration but Labour Party and Trade Union banners were few and far between The left-wing in the the Labour Party cannot be complacent because Powell's bill has been defeated as Jo Richardson pointed out. 'If this decision goes against us in the Law Lords we have IO campaign for a change in the law. We have to defeat them resolutions, demonstrations, by lobbying our MP's'.
Even it we win the moral right will . look for another loophole law or another private memners nik. new are or the offensive and the pro-choice movement has to be re-built to be in a position to counter attack.