The Abortion Act 1967: A fundamental change?

DOI: 10.1057/9781137374103\₄; International audience; In the 1960s, Great Britain underwent a series of profound changes in both social and cultural terms. For some, these changes were the result of a growth in liberal values and individual freedom, while critics saw this as the rise of a permissiveness which was destroying national values and morals. Politicians’ sexual peccadilloes were now being revealed, while satirical publications and television programmes were daring to challenge and ridicule both politicians and the Establishment, a thing previously unheard of, just not quite the done thing. The ‘Celtic fringe’ was making its voice heard far more, either through civil rights demonst…