§ Miss Jo Richardson (Barking)With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I wish to present a petition, signed by 252,439 citizens from all parts of the United Kingdom, which claims that to restrict the availability of abortion would be detrimental to a great number of women, would take away a woman's essential right to avoid accidental and unwanted pregnancy and would thereby enforce motherhood and penalise women on low incomes who are unable to afford private abortions.
The petitioners therefore pray that no legislation will be passed which would restrict the circumstances in which women could have legal abortion, believing as they do that women should have the right to free National Health Service abortion and that restrictions will lead to enforced pregnancy and motherhood and unwanted children or dangerous back-street abortions.
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