Abortion, corruption and cops [videorecording] : the Bertram Wainer story.
Description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (52 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inOther title:- Abortion, corruption & cops
- 363.460994 22
- Writer/director, John Moore ; producers, John Moore, Sue Seeary.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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DVD | Jessie Street National Women's Library | 363.460994 ABO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library | 67033 |
A Film Australia Interest Program in association with John Moore Productions. Developed and produced with assistance of Film Victoria. Produced in association with SBS Independent.
Writer/director, John Moore ; producers, John Moore, Sue Seeary.
Narrator, Angie Milliken.
In 1967 a young woman came to Dr Bertram Wainer's Melbourne surgery seeking emergency medical treatment after a backyard abortion. She was desperately ill yet too afraid to go to hospital. For Wainer this was the start of a long, hard struggle to overturn laws that made abortion an offence punishable by up to 15 years in jail. In the process he uncovered a web of corruption involving highly paid doctors, backyard abortionists, high-ranking police and power-broking politicians. It would lead to attempts against his life and the first major public enquiry into a state police force, as he fought to make abortions accessible, affordable and safe.
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