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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 18. 27th July 1972

Who Opposes Abortion?

Who Opposes Abortion?

Who are the people who are strongly opposed to abortion who would join the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child? I think they fall into three general categories.

Firstly, people who are conservative on all issues, including extreme right-wingers. (Remember Hitler opposed abortion - he was a great upholder of the family, and of women's servitude. Under the fascists, abortion for woman of the "master" race was a capital offence - yet they forced Jewish women to undergo abortion and sterilisation against their will.) This first category, the real conservatives, are our worst opponents - they are intractable.

The second category- people, and especially men, who are liberal on some issues but never those which concern women's rights. These people want to keep women in the background while they concern themselves with the affairs of the world, even if those affairs directly affect women's lives. They won't recognise women as people with rights until women show them in the strongest terms, that we are capable of fighting our own battles.