Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

NHS chiefs cut abortion rights

Socialist Outlook no. 2, February 1997 · 173 words

Women

'OMEN in Enfield & Haringey face new obstacles in obtai g an abortion under the NH a growing casn snortal, nas acciaca to pertune abortion services budget at £600,000, despite growing numbers of and urging ars to ter padents or private serveres insteza. EnS radoning Of services to desperate women is to be enforced by the application of strict more women into obtaining abortions privately, to cut NHS spending The Health Authority, facing As a result they are restricting services to just 45 terminations a week, In Cambridge & Huntingdon, too, health chiefs are aseeking to pressure ported this as the contrast between the 'time poor' and "the money poor' many working class families are in fact both. Two million children in Britain are estimated (by The O6serter January 19) to be malnourished, and as a result underweight Nearly ten million people are on income support while one quarter of te poputation nyc on incomics below half the national average. By giving up the redistributive power of changes in direct taxation levels,

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