S.P.U.C. eyes M.P.S
PA Wellington Only half of the members of Parliament “most likely” to be elected in Saturday would be prepared to strengthen the abortion laws, according to the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child. The society said yesterday that its survey of candidates to test opinion on the issue suggested that the next Parliament could have a much more liberal approach to abortion. “For the first time there is
a real likelihood of a majority of members of Parliament having liberal views on abortion,” said the national president of the society, Mr Peter Barry-Martin. The society had promoted the cause of those polticial candidates who were prepared to strengthen the laws. “We believe we have identified several thousand voters in the marginal electorates in particular who believe that fj a candiate’s stand on abortion is an im-
portant consideration for his election to Parliament. “If they vote as they have indicated we may just scrape home with a ‘pro-life’ Parliament,” he said. The Canterbury chairman of the Abortion Law Reform Association, Mrs P. M. Syme, said that a survey saying that 11. of 31 Christchurch Parliamentary candidates supported “pro-life”, principles was misleading. Some of those 11 candidates had little hope of election. y
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