Abortion
Abortion clinics and exclusion zones
Newspaper clippings about the East Melbourne Fertility Clinic, and others, and a bill to be brought in that will ban protesters to a 150 metre exclusion zone around the clinics.
Age editorial, 3 September 2015
Safeguarding women by Miki Perkins, The Age, 5 September 2015.
Rank and vile by Jen Vuk, The Age, 17 March 2014.
Doyle applauds law, The Age, ? 2014
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Abortion clinics win exclusion zones
Laws past in 2015 that make illegal to harass people within 150 metres of abortion providers came into effect on Monday 2 May 2016. Anti-abortion advocates produced a flyer which was circulated throughout East Melbourne in protest against the new laws. This was picked up by The Saturday Paper.
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Berman Margaret and abortion
Newspaper clippings and obituary about Margaret (Peggy) Berman's role in the abortion issue which resulted in legalisation of abortion. She worked as receptionist at a clinic in East Melbourne. Photos. November to December 2002.
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BERMAN, Margaret
Margaret (Peggy) Berman (1923-2002)
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Dr. Samuel Peacock His Conviction and Acquittal of Murder in East Melbourne
Presentation by Malcolm Howell to the East Melbourne Historical Society about Dr. Samuel Peacock and the alleged murder of Mary Davies as a result of an illegal abortion.
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Prosecution of Dr Samuel Peacock, Eastbourne House 1911
An article in the Melbourne Truth newspaper dated 24 April 1976 describing the events of 1911 when Dr Samuel Peacock was prosecuted for the murder of Mary Margaret Davies. Her remains were never found but it appears that she died following an abortion at Dr Peacock's premises in Eastbourne House on the corner of Wellington Parade and Simpson Street.
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The man who brought abortion out of the dark
Newspaper clipping: A life of Bertram Wainer by his widow, Jo Wainer.
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The man who saved women
Article featuring Dr. Bertram Wainer, the leading abortion law reformer, who founded the Fertility Clinic in Wellington Parade. The article also refers to Dr. Jim Troup, a doctor conducting illegal abortions at his rooms in Hoddle Street while paying the police protection money, and his receptionist Peggy Berman, who blew the whistle.
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