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DELEGATES to the STUC women’s conference voted yesterday to make it easier for women to get abortions in Scotland.
CWU delegate Joyce Stevenson moved a motion calling for the Abortion Act 1967 to drop the required permission from two doctors before a termination is carried out, a position also supported by the British Medical Association.
Ms Stevenson said it was the only medical treatment which needed authorisation from two doctors and was “wholly unhealthy, unfair and unjust,” putting “unnecessary barriers” in front of women and girls seeking abortion.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
