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In the autumn of 1963 I applied for the part-time job, advertised in the New Statesman, of secretary to the Abortion Law Reform Association, at a salary of £2 per week and working from home. When Mrs Vera Houghton, ALRA Chairman, wrote offering me the job, she said The work tends to be spasmodic … but we don’t anticipate that it will amount to more than the equivalent of one day a week. There may, of course, be exceptional times when we are busy with a campaign.’
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© 1998 Madeleine Simms, David Paintin and Dilys Cossey
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Cossey, D. (1998). Campaigning for Abortion Law Reform. In: Lee, E. (eds) Abortion Law and Politics Today. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26876-4_3
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