has push Demonstration in support of abortion rights in toronto Dr. Henry Morgantaler In Australia movement has been facing attacks on forces of law and order themselves, the police, The six Australian state governments have adopted different abortion laws in the past.
New South Wales allow abortion on social grounds. Other states (especially Queensland) are more restrictive In Queensland on 20 May of this year police launched a massive raid on two abortion medical files were seized and two docLUIS WEIC alICALCU This coincides passage through parliament of Brian Harradine's private members's bill to outlaw experimentation embrvos Powell bill and implies a definition of 'human life local make abortion and some forms of contraception illegal. Violence the being used to prevent women obtaining safe legal November 1984 there was an arson attempt at the Auckland Medical Aid Trust hospital (a clinic). More recently, on 7 May this year, a molotov cocktail was thrown at a building in Christchurch which is currently being converted into a free standing abortion clinic.
Christians previously picketed the local hospital board when the decision to establish the clinic was taken.
accused upheld failed by rape. proposal, guarantee thus against the pro-abortion in Brussels, Brugges Furnes and Ghent. In Ghent, an aborrecently •raided by police supposedly investigating Women patients in the clinic were harassed and interrogated in an attempt to get them to admit to having an illegal abortion. The attack abortion is also coming from the top levels of government. Doctor charged A government minister has appealed against the acquittal of Docto Van Haelen from the town of Nivelles of procuring illegal aborhe doctor was acquittea o this charge on grounds of a situation of moral distress'. If the appeal i other doctors will find themselves in an increasingly difficult In Spain the socialist-dominated government was elected on a promise of liberalising abortion. It has still do because has capitulated to the right-wing offensive despite the highly active campaign by the women's movement. In 1983 the Cortes adopted a bill allowing abortion in cases of damage to the health of the woman or the foetus and in cases of pregnancies brought about It is calculated that this would help only three per cent of Spanish women, the majority of whom have to either suffer unwanted pregnancies or go abroad to procure abortions.
constitutional tribunal sisting of one woman and Il mer recently challenged even this pathetic saying did not enough for the The women's movement has had to take up the cudgels both the government's thoroughly inadequate proposal and the attempts by the tribunal to prevent anything that would further the cause of women.