Conference on abortion

Press, 8 July 1976, Page 10

Conference on abortion

PA Wellington 1 A national women’s abor-' tion conference is to be held in Auckland on July 31 to | August 1. I A spokeswoman for the Wellington branch of the conference organising committee; said the conference was being! organised because over the! last year and a half the right of woman to control their own reproductive lives had been under increasinglyserious attack with the passing of Dr G. A. Wall’s Hospitals Amendment Bill and the trial of Dr Jim Woolnough. j “It is now expected the Minister of Health (Mr Gill) will within the next few weeks, introduc water-tight legislation which will almost certainly be aimed at closing the Aotea Private Hospital (formerly the Auckland 1 Medical Aid Centre), and to make our existing abortion laws even more restrictive than at present. “It is becoming increasingly; clear that the forces are not even content with our present brutal abortion laws—they intend to i make them even worse. It is, therefore, more important than ever that we organise not only to halt these attacks but also to make positive pro-! gress in getting rid of the; laws which allow women toi’

i be treated as little more than (breeding machines,” she ■said. I