Labour stalls on repeal
By DEREK ROUND, NZPA The Labour Party conference in Wellington last evening adopted a proposal from the Parliamentary Labour Party for a referendum on abortion. But it has still to vote on a resolution from the Labour Party women's conference calling for repeal of the abortion legislation passed last year. Delegates expected to vote on the women’s resolution last evening but the party’s president (Mr A. J. Faulkner) ruled it out of order after discussion because of its wording: it referred to the women’s conference and not the conference as a whole;
Repeal supporters are expected to try to have a reworded resolution voted on whdn the conference resumes this morning. The women’s resolution, which was carried by a big majority at their conference on Sunday, declared that the women supported repeal of the 1977 legislation. They also carried a resolution declaring their belief in a woman’s right to exercise her conscience on whether she should have an abortion. (Continued Page 6.)
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