Abortion: Right or Wrong?

in English, 83 pages,
T. Werner Laurie Ltd, January 01, 1940
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A principled and pioneering campaigner, Dorothy Thurtle was a lifelong worker for freedom, equality, and opportunity. She was a fervent champion of women’s rights. Thurtle was motivated by a strong sense of injustice, and a firm belief that there should not be one rule for the rich and another for the poor – especially when it came to birth control and access to abortion. In this, she held firmly to her principles, including as part of the Birkett committee on abortion 1937-9 (in Britain). When this committee, having heard evidence from a range of medical professionals, campaigning groups, and individuals, recommended no major change to the existing abortion laws, Dorothy Thurtle issued her own minority report. She recommended the legalisation of abortion under various circumstances (including in cases of rape or incest), and showed particular sensitivity to the needs and realities of working class women. Although unsuccessful in the 1930s, she continued her activism for decades more, and lived to see the introduction of the 1967 Abortion Act.