"When the 1967 Abortion Act cleared parliament, marking one of the most significant steps forward for women's rights in history, Diane Munday was among the campaigners raising a glass of champagne on the terrace of the House of Commons. I'm only drinking a half a glass, she told her colleagues at the time, because the job is only half done. And, she was right."
"In what has been hailed as the most significant advance for reproductive rights since 1967, parliament passed an amendment put forward by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi to the crime and policing bill, which sought to end the criminal investigation and prosecution of women who terminate their pregnancies. This followed a series of high-profile prosecutions in which women were hauled before the courts for ending pregnancies outside the strict legal framework."
Diane Munday campaigned for abortion law reform and co-founded the British Pregnancy Advice Service. She was a leading member of the Abortion Law Reform Association in the 1960s and 1970s and later became a patron of Humanists UK. Parliament passed an amendment by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi to end criminal investigation and prosecution of women who terminate pregnancies, following high-profile prosecutions of women who ended pregnancies outside strict legal frameworks. Munday's activism is rooted in personal experience: she had an abortion in 1961 and knew a woman who died. At 94 she continues daily work from a home office filled with archive material and she remains undeterred despite hostile correspondence.
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