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Continued from C.23 List of individual submitting evidence:
<p>50-79 (excluding 72-75)
</p><p>Notes: CWAA 9/72-187 - with sections missing and restricted -  SEE files C.113-114.</p>

Abortion Law Reform Association

Papers of the Committee on the Working of the Abortion Act (the Lane Committee)

Committee on the Working of the Abortion Act (CWAA) papers

CWAA papers: 1. Membership and terms of reference, 2. Background to the Committee's work.

CWAA papers: 3. Invitation of evidence and Committee research, with list of organisations (suggested Programme of Work); CWAA 4. Draft questionnaires; CWAA 5. Subjects for more detailed discussion at 3rd meeting (note); CWAA 6. Programme of work and appointment of subcommittees.

CWAA papers: 7. Review of research and statistics

CWAA papers: 7. Reviews of research and statistics (continued from C.18)

CWAA papers: 7. Reviews of research and statistics, (continued from C.19); CWAA 8. Draft Schema of the Committee's report, with letters commenting.

CWAA papers: 9. Submission of evidence

CWAA papers: 9. Submission of evidence (continued from C.21)

CWAA papers: 9. Submission of evidence (continued from C.22)

CWAA papers: 10. Suggested programme for taking oral evidence, CWAA 11. Draft Hospital questionnaire, CWAA 12. Submission of Evidence

CWAA papers 12: Submission of Evidence (continued from C.25)

CWAA papers 12: Submission of Evidence (continued from C.26)

CWAA papers 12: Submission of Evidence (continued from C.27)

CWAA papers 12: Submission of Evidence (continued from C.28)

CWAA papers 12: Submission of Evidence (continued from C.29)

CWAA Papers 12: Submission of Evidence (continued from C.30). Evidence of personal cases 1971.

CWAA Papers: 13. Proposed study of abortion patients, Ann Cartwright; 14. Notes by Secretariat for oral evidence; 15. Submission of evidence.

CWAA Papers 15: Submission of evidence (continued from C.32)

CWAA Papers 15: Submission of evidence (continued from C.33)

CWAA Papers 15: Submission of evidence (continued from C.34)

CWAA Papers 15: Submission of evidence (continued from C.35)

CWAA Papers 15: Submission of evidence continued from C.36)

CWAA Papers 15: Submission of evidence (continued from C.37). Evidence of personal cases 1971-1972.

CWAA Papers: 16. Analysis of hospital questionnaires, notes and correspondence; 17. Survey of abortion patients, Ann Cartwright; 18. Notes on oral evidence:  Medical Protection Societies.

CWAA Papers 19: Submission of evidence

CWAA Papers 19: Submission of evidence (continued from C.40)

CWAA Papers 19 (continued from C.41): Evidence of personal cases 1971-1972

CWAA Papers: 20. Oral evidence: some questions; 21. Analysis of questionnaires to nursing homes (see also Subcommittee 4: Private Sector) (see SA/ALR/C.15); 22. Analysis of questionnaires to Pregnancy Advisory Bureaux

CWAA Papers 23: Submission of evidence

CWAA Papers 23: Submission of evidence (continued from C.44). Evidence of personal cases 1972.

CWAA Papers: 24.Questions for oral evidence and programme of oral evidence; 25. Submission of Evidence

CWAA Papers 25: Submission of evidence. Evidence of personal cases 1972.

CWAA Papers: 26. Oral evidence:  some questions for witnesses; 27. Draft agenda for meeting and index of topics for discussion; 28. Session on research and statistics

CWAA Papers 29: Submission of evidence.

CWAA Papers 29: Submission of evidence (continued from C.49). Evidence of personal cases 1972

CWAA  Papers: 30-35, 37

CWAA Paper 38: Submission of evidence

CWAA Papers 38: Submission of evidence (continued from C.52)

CWAA Papers 38: Submission of evidence (continued from C.53). Evidence of personal cases 1972

CWAA Papers: 39-47

CWAA Papers 48: Survey of Abortion Patients (Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care (Cartwright))

CWAA Papers 49: Extracts from Parliamentary Debates 1966 and 1967

CWAA Papers: 50. Recommendations by NHS Groups to the Committee (see also CWAA 69); 51. Treaty of Rome and a residential qualification; 52. Illegal Abortions (and see 62); 53. Illegal Abortions, data from HIPE; 54. Notes and comments on abortions in women of social classes IV and V; 55. Menstrual aspiration: correspondence and memos; 56. Psychiatric aspects of legalised abortion; 57. Preliminary report by Dr Rothman and in the USA about the control of pregnancy advisory bureaux; 58. Oral evidence: some questions for witnesses; 59. Submission of evidence

CWAA Papers 59: Submission of evidence (continued from C.58). Evidence of personal cases 1972

CWAA Papers: 60. Paper by Dr Pereira Gray on After Care and Research; 61. The referral system; 62. Illegal abortion: paper by the Secretaries (and see 52, 53); 63. Menstrual aspirations, National Women's Health Coalition; 64. Submission of evidence

CWAA Papers 64: Submission of evidence (continued from C.60)

CWAA Papers 64: Submission of evidence (continued from C.61). Evidence of personal cases 1972-1973

CWAA Papers: (65.-66. see C.116); 67. Late termination: note by Secretariat; 68. Pilot Projects, with alternative draft by Miss Barnes; 69. Expansion of CWAA 50 - contractual arrangements by Dr Rue; 70. Pregnancy Testing; 71. Recommendations to Committee from Group on pregnancy advice bureaux; 72. Report from Group on Pregnancy in the under 16-year old; 73. Disposal of Fetuses and Fetal Material obtained at abortion (see also CWAA 38/24); 74. Report of analysis of form concerning individual patients, (second draft): form D of CWAA questionnaire to hospitals; 75. Chapter 6: Process (first draft)

CWAA Papers: 76. Chapter 9: Opinions (first draft); 77. Chapter 5: Medical Aspects (first draft), (78.-79. see C.117)

CWAA Papers: 80. Uterine evacuation before diagnosis of pregnancy, comments on draft; 81. Provision of contraceptives to children under age of consent without parental knowledge; 82. Children in care and termination of pregnancy; (83. see C.117); 84. Summary of patients' experiences; 85. Contraception and sterilisation, paper by Secretariat; 86. Women resident abroad coming for abortion, paper by Secretariat, (87. see C.117)

CWAA Papers: 88. Education of the public, paper by Miss Rasbach and Miss Gutteridge; 89. Abortion notification projections, with graphs

CWAA Papers: 90. Summary of patients' experience; 91. Analysis of members' comments on 1st draft of introduction; 92. Section E, Methods of Abortion (Second Draft); (93. see C.117); 94. Effects of failure to obtain abortion; 95. Comments of members and Secretariat on draft Chapter 8 - Who Should Decide?; (96. see C.117); 97. Implications of the Act for nurses and midwives, paper by Miss Worsley and Miss Munro; 98. The role of the general practitioner, Dr Pereira Gray; (99.-100. see C.117); 101. Procedure by which a woman obtains legal abortion; 102. Outline draft of CWAA statistical appendix, Chapter 10; (103.  see C.118); 104. Legal position in Scotland

CWAA Papers 105: Submission of evidence

CWAA Papers 9, 10, 13, 20: Submission of  Evidence (continued from C.68). Evidence of personal cases 1973

CWAA Papers: 106. Comments of members and Secretariat on draft Chapter 1: Criteria for abortion; 107. Historical and International Appendix; 108. The Pregnancy Advisory and Medical Trust: note by Secretariat; 109. Index of written evidence (several); 110. Comments by members and Secretariat on draft Section K - Upper limit of abortion; (111.-113. see C.119); (114. missing); (115.-116. see C.119)

CWAA Papers: 117. Note on injuries to unborn children; (118. see 119); 119. Submission of evidence

CWAA Papers 119: Submission of evidence (continued from c.71). Evidence of personal cases 1973

CWAA Papers: 120. Women resident abroad coming for abortion, note by Secretariat; 121. Day care services for early abortions; 122. The gynaecologist and abortion; (123. see C.121); 124. Letter from Dr Batchelor, University of Dundee, commenting on paper 'Suicide Attempts in a Population Pregnant as Teenagers'; (125. missing); 126. Letter from R.D. Ireland, suggesting amendments to paper K, 127. Sex education in British Schools, with other papers on the subject, (128.-131. see C.121); 132. Women resident abroad coming for abortion, note by Secretariat; (133. see C.121); 134. Contraception including sterilisation, comments on draft sections

CWAA Papers: 135. Comments on Section G by Mrs Cheetham; 136. Outcome of unwanted pregnancies by Emery and Lavin, comments on paper from Stuart Lord; (137. see C.121); 138. Implications of the Abortion Act for Nurses and Midwives; (139. missing); (140.-141. see C.121); 142. Section H, 3rd and final draft - Who Should Decide?; 143. Comments on draft sections; (144. missing); (145.-147. see C.121); (148. missing); (149.-150. see C.121); 151. Comments on main report, Section E; (152. see C.121); 153. Section B, criticism; 154. Comments on main report; (155. missing); 156. Information about CWAA Report, draft press hand out

CWAA papers: 9. Submisison of evidence. Evidence of personal cases 1971

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