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Ents. ted our bly ese it a om s in urty ofen's ual sed lort ho ley and veinst ter (above) from the heads of six Northern ent for civil rights as the precedent for their eaders also cite the fact that the majority of been reflected not only in polls but also in incisco—30,000 on April 2, 1989, and 60,000 if the national mobilizations in Washington, vanye Richard F. Sawyer, Bus. MAr.

Santa Clara-San Benito Council women. The NOW leadership should not repeat the failed strategy of the ERA campaign.

The moral authority of NOW is tremendous because of its tireless advocacy of women's fundamental rights and because of its leadership in calling the giant mobilizations of 1989. What we need right now is another mass national mobilization for women's equality and women's lives.

Through the previous mobilizations NOW was able to educate an entire generation about the importance of legal, safe, accessible abortion. This is a life and death issueif abortion is made illegal or inaccessible, women will die. This knowledge, and a willingness of hundreds of thousands to act on it, makes it logical and imperative for NOW to use its well-eared authority to mobilize again. Canadian Auto Workers Union underwrote half the cost of a bus from Toronto.

Women forcibly ejected

When women expressed their outrage as the House passed the bill by nine votes, security guards forcibly ejected them from the galleries. Several women were injured, including one who required hospitalization.

Before leaving Parliament Hill, pro-choice supporters rallied outside and pledged to continue the fight for safe, legal abortion. News broadcasts reported the "bill passed Parliament amid an uproar with women's groups vowing to fight back."

Several supposedly pro-choice Liberal members of Parliament were conveniently absent the day of the vote.

The bill is now before the Canadian Senate which can either pass or reject it or send it back to the House for further consideration. Pro-choice supporters are demanding that the Tories drop the bill, allowing it to die in the Senate. (The Tories took that course a year ago after child-care legislation passed the House.)

If, as is likely, the Tories continue to press for passage of the new abortion law, pro-choice supporters will demand that the Senate defeat this legislation. The Canadian Abortion Rights Action League has called Kathleen O'Nan/Socialist Action and phone company investigators some time to stop this harassment.

Even before the new law takes effect, access to abortion services in Canada continues to decline. Nova Scotia has outlawed clinics, declaring that abortions can only be performed in hospitals. On June 4, Dr. Henry Morgenthaler went on trial in Halifax for violating this anti-clinic legislation. The provincial government turned down his offer to sell the clinic to the province at cost.

At the same time clinics were outlawed, the hospital which performs almost all abortions in Nova Scotia has severely limited the number it will perform.

Similar cutbacks have taken place at other hospitals. In Winnipeg, the hospital which used to perform most abortions for Manitoba and neighboring provinces will now only perform the service for province residents. This hospital has also stopped performing second trimester abortions and begun requiring parental consent for minors. The situation in Calgary and several other cities is similar.

Ontario law requires parental consent for those under 16 for any hospital procedure. However, similar restrictions do not apply to clinics. The cutbacks in hospital abortions are particularly serious since there are less than 10 abortion clinics in all of Canada.

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student rally: "The educational levels of our people are greater than city, like New York, it has an area with huge, splendid buildings. But what do you see alongside them. Many millions living in favelas [shanty-towns]. Cities have grown up without any kind of order, people come looking for jobs, looking for a solution to their problems, they build anything, and all the hills and heights are filled.

Problems of education and employment, the problems of housing and nutrition, all those problems get worse, not better. In recent years they have grown worse, as a result of the foreign debt crisis. I can see that objectively all these problems are getting So we can talk about the abundance of this First World you mentioned sitting on a volcano which can erupt. That volcano is in the Third World and nobody has an answer to these problems. Capitalism won't solve these problems.

I told them that in 30 years of socialist revolution, we have solved what Latin America hasn't solved in 200 years. The educational levels of our people are greater than those of the United States; our health indices are similar to those of the United States and in some respects we are ahead of them.

The capital of the United States [Washington, D.C.], the capital of the empire, has an infant mortality rate in the first year of life three times greater than that of Havana. Of course it is a city with a large Black population and the indices may be good for rich whites, but for Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Blacks they are shameful.