Anti-abortionists demonstrate
About 25 placard-carrying and banner-waving anti-abor-tionists yesterday held a quiet demonstration to protest against the North Canterbury Hospital Board’s plans to improve abortion services in Christchurch. The protesters, supporters of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, stood outside the board’s administration offices in Oxford Terrace from about 8 a.m. until 10.15 a.m. They then sat in on the early part of the board’s monthly meeting, which included deliberation on the establishment of a freestanding abortion clinic, which had been approved in principle by the board’s health services committee on October. 14. The board deferred a final decision on the clinic, referring the matter, and a letter it had earlier received from S.P.U.C., to its policy committee for further investigation.
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