SIX WOMEN WILL ARGUE ABORTION

By a Staff Correspondent 'SIX women will debate the Abortion Bill from a woman's IL' angle at a public meeting on Monday afternoon, sponsored by the Social Morality Council and the Humanist Association. The speakers will be from the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child and the Abortion Law Reform Association.
The meeting, at 2.30 p.m. in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.1, will be introduced by Dr. Marita Harper, a Catholic.
In favour of the Bill will be Dr. Rowena Woolf, a gynaecologist; Mrs. Diana Munday, a housewife and humanist, and Miss Anne Allen, the Sunday Mirror columnist.
Those against are Mrs. Jill Knight, M.P.; Dr. Margaret White, J.P.; and Miss Phyllis Court, a journalist, and secretary of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child.
MALE VIEWS
Mr. Stephan Hopkinson, chairman of the Social Morality Council, and Mr. H. J. Blackham, chairman of the Humanist Association, in announcing the meeting, say that most of the opinions expressed in the controversy over the Bill have come from men.
"Men are clearly unable fully to understand all that is involved in the matter of motherhood and the complex psychological and personal reactions both to its occurrence and its prevention."
There will be opportunities for questions and comments from the floor. Men will be welcome, but no vote will be taken unless there is a general consensus of opinion on some appropriate resolution.
APPEAL TO PARLIAMENT
An appeal for a Royal Commission to investigate fully the question of legalised abortion was supported, with one dissentient vote, at a private meeting in London last Saturday of more than 200 senior representatives of the nursing and midwifery professions.
The appeal has been set to all MPs on the Standing Committee on the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill and to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health (Mr. Robinson) and the Home Secretary (Mr. Jenkins). It is in the form of a letter from the chairman of the meeting, Mr. Anthony Watson Purdie, FRCS, FRCOG.
Organ in Holy Week liturgy
THE organ, previously pro ▪ hibited during the last three days of Holy Week, may now be played to accompany the singing according to the new Instruction on Sacred Music promulgated by the Pope last week. It may not, however, be played when there is no singing.
Bishop's health
THE condition of Bishop
• Craven, auxiliary of Westminster,. and at 83 the oldest bishop in the country, was reported to be "a little better" on Tuesday. He has been ill for some weeks.