"The greatest motor behind the anti-abortion campaign has always come from the Catholic and fundamentalist Protestant churches and within all churches there has always been the strongest streak of misogyny. Telling infertile women that they should not benefit from test tube bay techniques or telling pregnant women they must give birth springs from a fount of woman hating passion that begins with the first chapter of Genesis and Eve in the Garden of Eden."
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On David Alton's Private Member's Bill in the House of Commons to reduce the time limit beyond which an abortion could not be performed. At the 1987 general election the previous June, 41 female MPs (6.3% of the 650 total) were returned to the otherwise "virtually all-male House of Commons".
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