Includes: Memorandum to Dr W.A. van Niekerk, Minister of Health and Population Planning re the Abortion and Sterilization Act No.2 1975, by M. Lessing, April 1986; Report presented by Prof. M. Mellish at the end-of-the-decade for women conference held in May 1985; Comments on the memorandum on the Abortion and Sterilization Act No.2 of 1975, submitted by the Women's Bureau; List of delegates to meeting with Min. of Health and Population Planning; organisations that have requested former ministers of health to set up a commission to enquire into the workings of the 1975 Abortion and Sterilization Act; Cosmopolitan's Abortion survey.